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The Resource The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett
The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett
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The item The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- One of The Today Show's "Must-Read Books for Fall"One of Buzzfeed's "21 New Books You Need to Read this Fall"From a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree"Brit Bennett is a brilliant and much-needed new voice in literature."--Angela Flournoy, author of National Book Award-finalist The Turner HouseA 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. From the Hardcover edition
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (9 hr., 55 min., 36 sec.))
- Isbn
- 9780735288263
- Label
- The mothers : a novel
- Title
- The mothers
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Brit Bennett
- Subject
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- Audiobooks
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- California, Southern
- California, Southern -- Fiction
- Choice (Psychology)
- Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Downloadable audio books
- Electronic books
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Literature
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Teenage pregnancy
- Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- African American teenagers
- African American teenagers -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- One of The Today Show's "Must-Read Books for Fall"One of Buzzfeed's "21 New Books You Need to Read this Fall"From a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree"Brit Bennett is a brilliant and much-needed new voice in literature."--Angela Flournoy, author of National Book Award-finalist The Turner HouseA 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. From the Hardcover edition
- Accompanying matter
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- Cataloging source
- TEFOD
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bennett, Brit
- Dewey number
- 813.6
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- not applicable
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- LC call number
- PS3602.E66444
- LC item number
- M68 2016ab
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
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- PerformerNote
- Read by Adenrele Ojo
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- Ojo, Adenrele
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- African American teenagers
- Teenage pregnancy
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Choice (Psychology)
- California, Southern
- Fiction
- Literature
- FICTION
- African American teenagers
- Choice (Psychology)
- Teenage pregnancy
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- California, Southern
- Target audience
- general
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett
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- online resource
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- rdacontent
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- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (9 hr., 55 min., 36 sec.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
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- Isbn
- 9780735288263
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- sound
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- digital recording
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- remote
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- other
- Stock number
- D8AADFE5-8136-4A4A-BADD-2BB78E421799
- System control number
- (OCoLC)960637774
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The mothers : a novel, Brit Bennett
- Link
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn960637774
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 sound file (9 hr., 55 min., 36 sec.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780735288263
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- Stock number
- D8AADFE5-8136-4A4A-BADD-2BB78E421799
- System control number
- (OCoLC)960637774
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Audiobooks
- Bildungsromans
- Bildungsromans
- California, Southern
- California, Southern -- Fiction
- Choice (Psychology)
- Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Downloadable audio books
- Electronic books
- FICTION -- Literary
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Literature
- Psychological fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Teenage pregnancy
- Teenage pregnancy -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- African American teenagers
- African American teenagers -- Fiction
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