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005			20250921155503.0
008			160504s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2016010837
020			_a9780399184512 (hardback)
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040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dTLC _erda
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050	0	0	_aPS3602.E66444 _bM68 2016
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100	1		_aBennett, Brit _eauthor. _0(DLC)n 2016024415
245	1	4	_aThe mothers : _ba novel / _cBrit Bennett.
263			_a1609
264		1	_aNew York : _bRiverhead Books, _c2016.
264		1	_a[Place of publication not identified] : _b[Publisher not identified], _c2016.
300			_a278pages 24cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
380			_aBook _2tlcgt
380			_aFiction _2marcgt
385			_aGeneral _2tlctarget
520			_a"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "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." It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt. In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAfrican American teenagers _vFiction. _0(DLC)sh2009113957
650		0	_aTeenage pregnancy _vFiction. _0(DLC)sh2008112704
650		0	_aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) _vFiction. _0(DLC)sh2008112615
650		0	_aChoice (Psychology) _vFiction. _0(DLC)sh 85024618
650		7	_aFICTION / Contemporary Women. _2bisacsh _0(local)tlcaut1023296244969800
650		7	_aFICTION / Coming of Age. _2bisacsh _0(local)tlcaut1025080814710500
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _2bisacsh _0(local)tlcaut1023300065888200
651		0	_aCalifornia, Southern _vFiction. _0(DLC)sh 85018898
655		7	_aComing of age fiction. _2tlcgt
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcgft
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