![]() ![]() Nadia is unwilling to repeat the history of her mother, Elise, who was disowned by her family for conceiving Nadia out of wedlock. When we first meet the novel’s central character, Nadia Turner, she is 17, pregnant and fully sure she wants to become “unpregnant”. ![]() The tumultuous lives of the three protagonists give “the Mothers” of Upper Room Chapel in Oceanside, San Diego, plenty to chinwag about. With the effect of a Greek chorus, they bookend the stories of three young adults, offering their advice and admonitions at various stages of the journey. The title of Brit Bennett's superb debut novel The Mothers refers, in part, to a group of gossipy and reproving older women from a black church community in southern California. If we laid all our lives toes to heel, we were born before the Depression, the Civil War, even America itself.” ![]() ![]() “What did a bunch of old ladies know? We would’ve told her that altogether, we got centuries on her. ![]()
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