There was the mother who would not protect her daughter and the mother who abandoned her daughter.
The daughters become mothers, one by mistake and the other through great endeavor.
And there are the other Mothers, the Greek Chorus women of Upper Room Church, the women who pray and get things done--and spread the rumors.
There is the First Lady, the pastor's wife, mother of Luke, the handsome and thoughtless boy who grows to be a handsome and unreliable man.
It is the story of two girls and one boy, the tangled web of their silence and secrets.
It is the story of gender and power, the double-edged sword of ending an unwanted pregnancy, the way we categorize people as good or bad when good people do bad things, too.
These deeply flawed characters are each in their way heartbreaking as they break each other's hearts.
The audiobook is excellent. I only wish I could have marked special sentences and passages!
I received a free audiobook from the publisher. My review is fair and unbiased.
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), Adenrele Ojo (Narrator)
ISBN0735288267 (ISBN 13: 9780735288263)
