![]() ![]() The father of Nadia’s “Baby” is Luke Sheppard, the son of the pastor whose college football career is sidelined by injury. The fact that Elise has killed herself a few months before Nadia gets pregnant adds further layers to the complex relationship between mother and daughter: “If you couldn’t know the person whose body was your first home, then who could you ever know?”īrit Bennett: she has rich domesticity of Anne Tyler and the eloquent arguments of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 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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