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The Mothers
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The Mothers

A Novel

by Brit Bennett

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@DHeiligman @unlikelybkstore @rebeccamakkai I LOVED that book. Reading @britrbennett's The Vanishing Half and it's amazing. So was The Mothers.

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Recommended by 3 notable people, including Sarah Jessica Parker and Nancy Pearl

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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Fiction.

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 sourne...

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Sarah Jessica Parker

@DHeiligman @unlikelybkstore @rebeccamakkai I LOVED that book. Reading @britrbennett's The Vanishing Half and it's amazing. So was The Mothers.

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