The Mothers

Resumen del libro

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. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. 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, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.

Biografía del autor

Brit Bennett (Oceanside, Califòrnia, 1990) es va formar a les universitats de Stanford i de Michigan, on va obtenir diversos premis literaris. Ha publicat en revistes com The Paris Review, The New York Times, The NYT Magazine i The New Yorker. La seva primera novel-la, The mothers (2016), li va valdre un èxit considerable de crítica i públic i va guanyar el premi de la revista francesa Lire a la millor novel-la estrangera de lx{0026} x02019;any. El mateix any va rebre el premi 5 under 35 de la National Book Foundation, que reconeix els cinc millors escriptors de menys de trenta-cinc anys. La meitat evanescent (Periscopi, 2021) és la primera obra de Bennett que es publica en català, ha estat nominada al National Book Award i ha estat considerada un dels llibres de lx{0026} x02019;any pels principals mitjans nord-americans.