Nadia decides to have an abortion, accepting money that Luke gives her without questioning its source, a secret that burns through the rest of the novel. Nadia's own mother had her when she was 17, and Nadia wonders if abdicating her dreams to raise her daughter might have been the root of her unhappiness. The summer before Nadia will head off to the University of Michigan, she begins sleeping with Luke, a football player who had gone to "a real university, not the community college where everyone loafed around a few months after graduation before finding jobs." Luke gets Nadia pregnant. Brit is one of the National Book Foundations 2016 5 Under 35 honorees. She doesn’t like Nadia because she once caught her kissing a boy behind the church when she was in seventh grade (12/13 years old). None of these dear people will emerge from it unhurt. The job is assisting Latrice Sheppard, a.k.a. Aubrey's mysterious past trouble has left her "skittish, like a delicate bird landing on your knee."īennett renders each of these characters vividly and without judgment, and sets them loose in a story that pits their desires against each other. 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. Finally, there's Aubrey, a sweet young woman who arrives in Oceanside after fleeing her mother's household to live with her sister and her sister's girlfriend. The Mothers is a debut novel by Brit Bennett. There's Nadia's father, a grief-stricken ex-Marine Luke Sheppard, the 21-year-old Nadia sets her sights on, who happens to be the son of The Upper Room's pastor and the pastor's formidable wife, known as the first lady. Bennett gracefully segues back and forth from the conjoined voices of the church ladies to an omniscient that brings the reader close to the perspectives of this novel's other rich, nuanced characters.
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