![]() ![]() Nadia wants an abortion, and together she and Luke take care of it, swearing themselves to silence as their relationship implodes.Īs the summer drags on, Nadia’s father forces her to accept a summer job as Mrs Sheppard’s assistant. Their relationship – secretive and supposedly unserious – results in an unwanted pregnancy. That is how she ends up in Luke Sheppard’s arms. While her father overextends himself at church, Nadia goes on a rebellious streak. Neither she nor her father is handling her mother’s recent suicide well. ![]() Nadia Turner is a restless seventeen-year-old in mourning. We shared this sour secret, a secret that began the spring Nadia Turner got knocked up by the pastor’s son and went to the abortion clinic downtown to take care of it.” – p. “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. ![]() The Mothers by Brit Bennett is a book that shows these complex relationships by following the lives of three young African Americans and exploring how their connections with their mothers – biological, adoptive, or just the elderly church women who call themselves “The Mothers” – shape their futures in the wake of events from one eventful summer. Sisterhoods and motherhoods are complicated affairs, filled with love and joy as well as chaos and betrayals. ![]()
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