Spring 2021, In My Reading Log: Family, Food, Feminism, Faith, Fakery and Fantasy
Buried In Print2021-04-05T12:08:13-04:00Nancy Johnson’s The Kindest Lie (2021) reminds me of Terry McMillan for its focus on Black working women’s lives and Brit Bennett’s The Mothers for its slant towards mothering. The novel looks back, specifically to the election of Barack Obama in 2008: “Their feet felt light and their chests,