The Resource The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett
The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett
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The item The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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- Summary
- "A 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. 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. It begins with a secret. "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." It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. 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. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. 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. In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The mothers : a novel
- Title
- The mothers
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Brit Bennett
- Subject
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- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Psychological fiction
- trueRegret
- trueReligious communities
- trueSecrets
- trueSelf-destructive behavior
- trueSouthern California
- trueSurvivors of suicide victims
- Teenage pregnancy
- trueTeenage pregnancy
- Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- trueYoung women
- trueAbortion
- trueAfrican American communities
- African American teenagers
- African American teenagers -- Fiction
- trueBest friends
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- California, Southern
- California, Southern -- Fiction
- Choice (Psychology)
- Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueOptions, alternatives, choices
- Psychological fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A 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. 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. It begins with a secret. "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." It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. 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. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. 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. In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. 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"--
- Award
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- LibraryReads Favorites, 2016
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2016
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10515889
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bennett, Brit
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- African American teenagers
- Teenage pregnancy
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Choice (Psychology)
- FICTION
- African American teenagers
- Choice (Psychology)
- Teenage pregnancy
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- California, Southern
- California, Southern
- Label
- The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1716417
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399184512
- Lccn
- 2016010837
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40026554443
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780399184512
- (OCoLC)936619521
- Label
- The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1716417
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 278 pages
- Isbn
- 9780399184512
- Lccn
- 2016010837
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40026554443
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780399184512
- (OCoLC)936619521
Subject
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Psychological fiction
- trueRegret
- trueReligious communities
- trueSecrets
- trueSelf-destructive behavior
- trueSouthern California
- trueSurvivors of suicide victims
- Teenage pregnancy
- trueTeenage pregnancy
- Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- trueYoung women
- trueAbortion
- trueAfrican American communities
- African American teenagers
- African American teenagers -- Fiction
- trueBest friends
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- California, Southern
- California, Southern -- Fiction
- Choice (Psychology)
- Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- trueOptions, alternatives, choices
- Psychological fiction
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- trueLove is Complicated
- trueLibraryReads Favorites: 2016
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2016
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Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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