After her relationship with Luke ends, Nadia spends the summer before college developing a deep friendship with Aubrey, another young woman from her church, who is living with her sister because Aubrey’s mother has chosen a man over her children.Īs the relationships grow and shift between Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey over the years, we also follow the story of the church community and “the Mothers,” who see everything and know everything about everyone in the Upper Room community. When Nadia learns she is pregnant with Luke’s child, she decides to have an abortion because she is headed to college - and so much more than the life she is leading in Oceanside, a town outside San Diego. The story begins, though, with a passionate relationship between an ambitious girl with a secret that could keep her from realizing her dreams and a boy whose dreams ended before they really began.ĭuring her senior year of high school, Nadia Turner has recently lost her mother when she meets Luke Sheppard, the preacher’s son from the church her family attends, Upper Room Chapel. This is a novel about so many things - mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, grief, faith, community, Southern California, and how some relationships last a lifetime. Brit Bennett’s debut novel The Mothers has stayed with me since I first read it, the words and the intimacy of the prose seeping into my pores.
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