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What an impressive debut. Great writing and three well-developed characters.
In a nutshell: I'd recommend this to fans of Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE and Tayari Jones's AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, as the novel unpacks themes of family, mothers (obviously), but also marriage, childhood friends, and complex triangles.
Moreover, the book bravely tackles the subject of abortion and did so in a way that did not feel political or preachy -- just a story peeling back the many many layers of the char ...more
In a nutshell: I'd recommend this to fans of Celeste Ng's LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE and Tayari Jones's AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE, as the novel unpacks themes of family, mothers (obviously), but also marriage, childhood friends, and complex triangles.
Moreover, the book bravely tackles the subject of abortion and did so in a way that did not feel political or preachy -- just a story peeling back the many many layers of the char ...more
Bennett so deftly captures the pain, regret, and wisdom that come about as a result of the messiness of life, of losing mothers to death (suicide) and distance, of aborting a child at the age of 17, of loving your high school sweetheart seemingly more than you love yourself, and of betraying your best friend. The narrator's voice moved this story along swiftly for me and Bennett strikes the right balance with omniscience in this novel. Her use of "the mothers" as a single, choral voice that fram
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