6/1/2023 0 Comments The mothers by bennett![]() ![]() How easy it would be to stay with them for the length of the book, to relish the pearls they toss our way, like: “It’s exciting, loving someone who can never love you back. ![]() Authorities on all things Upper Room, the mothers butt into and bend the narrative as they see fit, all too eager to tell us the “unripe secret, plucked too soon,” of what really happened between Nadia Turner her closest friend, Aubrey Evans and the man they both fell in love with, Luke Sheppard. Claiming centuries of collective experience - “If we laid all our lives toes to heel, we were born before the Depression, the Civil War, even America itself” - they appear like gossipy Furies at the head of every chapter, an invisible and united front of warnings, back story, predictions, contradictions, laments and very occasionally sympathy for the Oceanside, Calif., lives they lay bare. “All good secrets have a taste before you tell them,” the mothers of Upper Room Chapel tell us before the story even begins. ![]() Whom do we feel more conflicted about than mothers? To Brit Bennett’s credit, her ferociously moving debut lives up to its title, never once allowing readers a simplistic view of the maternal pain at its center. You’ve gotten every back in the room up, tapped into lizard-brain levels of vulnerability and need, and added a generous dose of comfort or contempt to whatever comes next. $26.Ĭall a book “The Mothers” and you’ve burdened it from the jump. ![]()
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