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Necessary Lies (2013)

di Diane Chamberlain

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Bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town fifty years ago, and the darkestâ??and most hopefulâ??places in the human heart
After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her grandmother's aging, her sister's mental illness and her own epilepsy, she realizes they might need more than she can give.
When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County's newest social worker, she doesn't realize just how much her help is needed. She quickly becomes emotionally invested in her clients' lives, causing tension with her boss and her new husband. But as Jane is drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the secrets of the small farmâ??secrets much darker than she would have guessed. Soon, she must decide whether to take drastic action to help them, or risk losing the battle against everything she believes is wrong.
Set in rural Grace County, North Carolina in a time of state-mandated sterilizations and racial tension, Necessary Lies tells the story of these two young women, seemingly worlds apart, but both haunted by tragedy. Jane and Ivy are thrown together and must ask themselves: how can you know what you believe is right, when everyone is telling you it's wr
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Loved this book - just like all her other great books! ( )
  JillHannah | Nov 20, 2023 |
Great book with historical knowledge of sterilization of poor people and those with epilepsy Ivy and Jane are 7 yrs apart and they were able to come together at the end for closure ( )
  BethQuerrey | Nov 7, 2023 |
This was another case of going into a book completely blind, not even having read the synopsis of the book. I picked it because I had previously read a book by this author and it was available for check out. I wasn't expecting as dark and deep a story as this but was pleasantly surprised that it was as good as the other book I read by her. Whenever I hear people talk about the "good old days," I want to smack them over the head with books like this one where the reality of what was going on in the 50's and 60's was not happiness and sunshine for so many people. This book is about the forced sterilization of black women in the US and was as heartbreaking as it was infuriating. As you can imagine, there is a lot of misogyny, racism and overall lack of respect for lives that weren't white and financially sound. It was a disturbing read but a good one that I highly recommend. ( )
  JediBookLover | Oct 29, 2022 |
This was a great read, seriously read it in a day (was on a airplane for 4 hours which helped) Very thought provoking story based on some real poverty/welfare issues in the 1940s. ( )
  Jen-Lynn | Aug 1, 2022 |
dnf was not interested in the main issue of the book. Seemed like it would be predictable and heartbreaking. ( )
  kathp | Jun 10, 2022 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:

Bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town fifty years ago, and the darkestâ??and most hopefulâ??places in the human heart
After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her grandmother's aging, her sister's mental illness and her own epilepsy, she realizes they might need more than she can give.
When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County's newest social worker, she doesn't realize just how much her help is needed. She quickly becomes emotionally invested in her clients' lives, causing tension with her boss and her new husband. But as Jane is drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover the secrets of the small farmâ??secrets much darker than she would have guessed. Soon, she must decide whether to take drastic action to help them, or risk losing the battle against everything she believes is wrong.
Set in rural Grace County, North Carolina in a time of state-mandated sterilizations and racial tension, Necessary Lies tells the story of these two young women, seemingly worlds apart, but both haunted by tragedy. Jane and Ivy are thrown together and must ask themselves: how can you know what you believe is right, when everyone is telling you it's wr

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