The Mothers by Brit Bennett
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\n"All good secrets have a taste bef ore you tell them\, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around ou r mouths\, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret\, plucke d too soon\, stolen and passed around before its season." It is the last s eason of high school life for Nadia Turner\, a rebellious\, grief-stricken \, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide\, s he takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one\, a f ormer football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a di ner. They are young\; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results fro m 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\, in cluding Aubrey\, her God-fearing best friend\, the years move quickly. Soo n\, 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 t riangle they must carefully maneuver\, and dogged by the constant\, naggin g question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt."
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