Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

If you looked at Ivy Hart and Jane Forrester separately, you would not see the ties that keep them connected.

Ivy Hart, daughter of a tobacco farmer, struggles with her life and the lives of those around her.  Jane Forrester is a newly hired social worker intent on helping her charges as much as possible.  Her husband is pressuring her to give up the job and join the Junior League and become a stay-at-home wife.

As Jane is drawn into the happenings of the Hart family, she discovers a secret more dark than any she could have imagined.

The story is set during a time of state-mandated sterlizations in North Carolina.  While the sterlizations did take place in that state's history, this story is a novel.  It is well-written and covers a topic previously unknown to me.

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