![]() In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. ![]() As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance-and the subsequent cover-up-will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. ![]() ![]() "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd 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." Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. ![]()
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