![]() ![]() Nadia tries to escape the clutches of small-town drama by attending college and law school across the country, but when she returns home to care for her ailing father, she finds herself enmeshed in unfinished business. This decision creates a web of secrets that endures for decades-though the ever watchful, ever gossiping Mothers never stop sniffing around and suspecting. More trouble awaits when Nadia discovers she's carrying Luke’s baby and decides not to keep it. The three teenagers are drawn together by the damage they have already suffered: Luke’s promising football career was ended by a terrible injury Aubrey has moved away from home to escape abuse by her stepfather. Since then the girl had earned a wild reputation-she was young and scared and trying to hide her scared in her prettiness.” Bennett’s debut novel tells the story of this grieving 17-year-old girl, Nadia, her best friend, Aubrey, and her boyfriend, Luke, told partly by Nadia and partly by a chorus of eponymous “Mothers,” the church ladies of Upper Room Chapel, where Luke’s father is the pastor. She lived with her father, a Marine, and without her mother, who had killed herself six months earlier. ![]() ![]() The tangled destinies of three kids growing up in a tightknit African-American community in Southern California. ![]()
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