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11 paź 2016 · Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.
2 lis 2016 · By Mira Jacob. Nov. 2, 2016. THE MOTHERS. By Brit Bennett. 278 pp. Riverhead Books. $26. Call a book “The Mothers” and you’ve burdened it from the jump. You’ve gotten every back in the room...
11 paź 2016 · Bennett’s debut novel tells the story of this grieving 17-year-old girl, Nadia, her best friend, Aubrey, and her boyfriend, Luke, told partly by Nadia and partly by a chorus of eponymous “Mothers,” the church ladies of Upper Room Chapel, where Luke’s father is the pastor.
30 lis 2016 · But Brit Bennett’s debut is searing and ferocious. In this book, motherhood and the absence of motherhood are each a painful, vicious wound. Rating. 3.5. Mothers and almost-mothers...
The Mothers is a debut novel by Brit Bennett. The book follows Nadia, a young woman who left her Southern California hometown years ago after the suicide of her mother and is called back to attend to a family emergency.
The titular Mothers are a group of older African American women whose sole succor is Upper Room, a black church in Oceanside, a satellite of San Diego. Having being battered down by years of institutionalized racism, they have now retreated to the quiet refuge of Upper Room to live out their last days and to wring their collective hands or ...
13 paź 2016 · Brit Bennett's new novel focuses on two best friends, both motherless, growing up in a black community in Southern California — and their shifting, lifelong negotiation with the idea of...
