The Mothers - Brit Bennett

Brit Bennett

Category: Contemporary

Narrator: Adenrele Ojo

Tags: Contemporary

A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small communityand the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennetts mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret., All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if wed taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season., It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mothers recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastors son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; its not serious. But the pregnancy that results from thi