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Brit Bennett

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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: 3.85 · 44,962 ratings · 5,036 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Mothers 3.84 avg rating — 44,067 ratings — published 2016 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Half 4.53 avg rating — 93 ratings — expected publication 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Je ne sais pas quoi faire des gentils blancs 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butterball 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nadia: Excerpted from The Mothers by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism by June Eric-Udorie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Soofiya Andry (Contributor) , Gabrielle Bellot (Contributor) 4.28 avg rating — 522 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon (Editor), Ayelet Waldman (Goodreads Author) (Editor) , Ann Patchett 4.17 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	10 Stories for the Back to School Season by Electric Literature, Ramona Ausubel (Goodreads Author) , Matt de la Pena (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them by Edan Lepucki (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Molly Wizenberg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip. —”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

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“The weight of what has been lost is always heavier than what remains.”
― Brit Bennett, The Mothers

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“Reckless white boys became politicians and bankers, reckless black boys became dead.”
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What books do you want to read in March and April? We'll go with the top 2 books. Unfortunately, Goodreads will only allow you to vote for one book at a time. Add a book if there's one you think we should read!

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

7 votes, 21.2%

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

6 votes, 18.2%

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

4 votes, 12.1%

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

4 votes, 12.1%

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

3 votes, 9.1%

The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater

3 votes, 9.1%

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

3 votes, 9.1%

The Mothers by Brit Bennett

1 vote, 3.0%

Pain and Prejudice by Gabrielle Jackson

1 vote, 3.0%

Beloved by Toni Morrison

1 vote, 3.0%

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
by Mikki Kendall (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

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