Mothers by Brit Bennett
H ave you every been so taken by a story that you stayed up late into the night to read it and when sleep beckoned, you wanted it to hurry up and complete it's task so you could get back to the beauty of a story? That is this book, Mothers by Brit Bennett. To say I loved this story does not do it enough justice. This could have been parts of my life, my story, your story, especially for those of us who either came of age in the 1980s or are parents of those who were born in the 1980s. She did a great job of bringing us into a contemporary topic and issue without dating this piece to not be relevant to the teens who will engage with me during The Hurston and Hughes Literary Circle. What an accessible story she has given us. It is for teens, college students, and adults. Mothers is truly a multi-generational narrative about life, choices, love, existence, and acceptance. One of the things that makes this novel a bit unique are the at-first-unknown narrators who are part storyt