I LOVE the way that they talk about secrets on pages 1-2: 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. The titular mothers appear to be part of the local church community. The comments section is open for you to tell me how you’re finding the book.
If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.I thought it could be fun to start sharing my monthly reading experience of the book club book with you.
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. a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington PostĪ dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community-and the things that ultimately haunt us most. engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss. “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” – The New York Times Book Review
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