A New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard First Novel Prize, a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and named a Best Book of 2016 by NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, and others.
"Ferociously moving. . .a lush book, a book of so many secrets, betrayal. . .Despite Bennett's thrumming plot, despite the snap of her pacing, it's the always deepening complexity of her characters that provides the book's urgency. . . I found myself reading not to find out what happens to the characters, but to find out who they are." -The New York Times Book Review "Ms. Bennett allows her characters to follow their worst impulses, and she handles provocative issues with intelligence, empathy and dark humor. Her risk-taking pays off." -The New York Times "[A] compelling debut." -The New Yorker "Delivers lines that you'll want to savor and read out loud -- because it's a story about secrets and betrayals, and part of the pleasure is your own sighs and gasps. It's both intimate and epic in scope. . .It hums along at a brisk, emotional pace -- the kind of story that feels like it's moving fast, but really, it's moving deep." -NPR "[Bennett's] storytelling does what all truly good fiction does: it draws you in and, on a universal level, connects with you and makes you think. . .The Mothers is a thought-provoking novel that will resonate long after it is read." -USA Today "A fantastic debut novel. . .Some novels take place as you read them, while others grow more complicated as you think back on them. Bennett has written that rare combination: a book that feels alive on the page and rich for later consideration. . .Bennett is a writer to watch." -The Washington Post "One of the most exciting debuts of the fall." -LA Times "Luminous. . .engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -PeopleAn urgent and provocative debut from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a book about community and ambition, love and friendship, and living up to expectation in contemporary black America. It begins with a secret, then follows that secret through the lives of three different characters - from high school into adulthood - tracing its impact far beyond their Southern California youth. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken seventeen-year-old beauty. She'll be the first in her family to go to college, if she indeed leaves home as she intends in the fall. But meanwhile, mourning her mother's recent suicide, she has taken up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, handsome but lacking direction, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables. They are young ; it's not serious ; they keep their relationship to themselves. But the secret that results from this romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides the truth from everyone, including Aubrey, her chaste best friend, the years move quicldy. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults, still shadowed by the choices they made in their youth, and by the constant, nagging question : What if they had chosen differently ? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. With her stunning first novel, Brit Bennett demonstrates a moving understanding of the human landscape, the way that betrayals and losses accrue and swell and ultimately shape whole communities. With wisdom, empathy, and insight, The Mothers asks whether "what if" can be more powerful than experience itself. Whether, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, and to the communities that have parented us.
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