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Best-selling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town 50 years ago, and the darkest - and most hopeful - places in the human heart. After losing her parents, 15-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 farm - 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 wrong?
Books with free ebook downloads available Epub Necessary Lies [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]
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- Listening Length: 10 hours and 51 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Audible.com Release Date: September 3, 2013
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CS5ON0S
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Almost from the very first page of Necessary Lies, I could feel the world of the 1960s in North Carolina swirling around me. Even though I'd never been there, I connected with the characters. As a retired social worker who has seen many of these kinds of families, and as a young person during the 60s, I felt very keenly the issues of those days.
Told in alternating first person perspectives, the story shifts between Ivy Hart, a teenaged girl living in a shack on a tobacco farm, and Jane Forrester, the newly married social worker who is passionately involved in this new job of hers, even though her physician husband is opposed to it.
Right away I could relate to each of them, and even though I'd never been in Ivy Hart's shoes, I had many clients who were just as disadvantaged.
The Eugenics Laws were new to my experience, however, even though I had read about these kinds of issues. Cringing as I read, I knew that the story was going to unfold in very dramatic ways. But the issues of mentally challenged individuals, sometimes institutionalized during the 1960s (and before), were practices I had seen firsthand. I will never forget how those experiences would change everything about how I viewed the world.
In this fictionalized tale, we see how one social worker's passion takes her outside the lines, risking everything to save one girl. How does Jane put everything on the line for Ivy? What happens to alter the course she had chosen? And what would be the final outcome years later?
Recent Women's College of Greensboro graduate Jane Mackie wants to do something to help others less fortunate than her. When she brings that dedication to her new job as a caseworker for the Department of Public Welfare, she inadvertently finds herself a part of North Carolina's shameful Eugenics Project.
When Jane goes with her new supervisor to visit those who will be her new clients, she finds their lives infinitely different from her own. One of them includes fifteen year old Ivy Hart, her older sister Mary Ella, Mary Ella's 2 year old son, Baby William, and the girls' grandmother Nonnie. They live in a tiny shack on a tobacco farm. Nonnie and the girls work on the farm; the shack is their rental payment in addition to a meager wage.
Charlotte Werkman, Jane's supervisor, takes her on her rounds the first few days, introducing Jane to her clients and explaining - and demonstrating - the work she will be doing. She will visit the welfare recipients, determine if they are receiving enough subsidies to survive, and bring donated clothing as needed. Jane is warned NOT to get emotionally involved with her clients. She must also try to monitor the girl's behaviors - the Department wants to prevent girls from getting pregnant, so they will supply contraceptive jelly to those who are sexually active. Jane is also supposed to watch for signs of retardation or debilitating illness; she notes that Baby William is still not talking, and that Nonnie and the girls don't appear to be watching him well.
When Charlotte tells Jane that she is preparing an order for Ivy's sterilization, Jane also learns that Mary Ella was sterilized, with Nonnie's permission, immediately after Baby William's birth - and told that she had her appendix removed.
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