02018cam a2200385 i 4500 277877600 TxAuBib 20161108120000.0 160504s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016010837 9780399184512 hardback 0399184511 hardback TxAuBib rda Bennett, Brit. The mothers : a novel / Brit Bennett. New York : Riverhead Books, 2016. ©2016. 278 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious, but the pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver. They are dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? 20161108. MG. km. African American teenagers Fiction. Teenage pregnancy Fiction. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction. Choice (Psychology) Fiction. FICTION / Coming of Age. FICTION / Literary. California, Southern Fiction. Psychological fiction. Bildungsromans.