The mothers : a novel

Title
The mothers : a novel

Author
Bennett, Brit author.

ISBN
9780735288256
 
9780735288270

Edition
Unabridged.

Physical Description
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
Compact disc.

Subject Term
African American teenagers -- Fiction.
 
Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction.
 
Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.
 
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term
California, Southern -- Fiction.

Genre
Bildungsromans.
 
Audiobooks

Added Author
Ojo, Adenrele

Local Subject
Spoken compact disc collection.

Summary
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.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Bayport Public LibrarySCD FICTION BEN 8 DISCSAudiobooks Fiction