Bennett writes expertly of grief: as most of the characters in this book come to realize, “grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. This unripe secret is no secret to the reader for most of the book, but the sour, lingering grief it causes flavors nearly every page. “All good secrets have a taste before you tell them,” the church mothers explain in the first chapter, “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.” This book is one of those exciting debut novels that not only deserves every ounce of preceding hype, but also announces a brilliant new author we’re all looking forward to seeing more from.įrom the first page, the rousing choral voice of the church mothers, who narrate from a perceptive but not-quite omniscient viewpoint and provide one of the many reflections of motherhood in the book, grabs you by the wrist and pulls you in. This week marks the release of one of the most buzzed-about novels coming out this fall: Brit Bennett’s THE MOTHERS.
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