![]() 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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