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Brit Bennett

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Born
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Genre
Fiction

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Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.

The Mothers is her first novel.

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Average rating: 3.84 · 35,698 ratings · 4,145 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors
The Mothers
3.84 avg rating — 35,589 ratings — published 2016 — 28 editions
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Butterball
3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2014
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Quotes by Brit Bennett

“Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip. —”
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“The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.”
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“Reckless white boys became politicians and bankers, reckless black boys became dead.”
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Polls

For May, our theme is mothers.
Which fiction book should we read?

Our non-fiction read will be
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less by Terry Ryan.

This poll opens at 12:01am Eastern time on Wednesday, April 19,
and will close at 11:59pm Eastern time on Wednesday, April 26.

 
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