July ~ Book of the month ✨️ The mothers by Brit Bennett 👩‍🍼 👭 🤰 ⛪️ ✝️ 👩‍🦱

As mentioned in earlier video, this year 2024, I will doing a book of the month for each month. 12 months, 12 different genre to explore. 


So for July, I read the book The mothers by Brit Bennett. This book is a psychological fiction book.


About book:


Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.

"All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season."

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. 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.

In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.

So here are my thoughts on the book of the month for July. 

📖 Buy The mothers by Brit Bennett at - https://amzn.to/4gwQOyF

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Live through stories! 


Time stamps:

00:00 - Intro and backstory

01:47 - Book of the month

02:25 - The mothers

03:17 - Likable little things

04:15 - A simple story

05:08 - The characters

06:10 - Spoiler warning

07:19 - Theme of the book and Trigger warning

09:39 - All religions are shit - personal opinion

11:06 - Flawed characters

13:27 - Small communities and their shortcomings

14:46 - Nadia's grief

15:53 - The mothers all about mothers?

17:34 - Nadia's end

18:16 - A happy coincidence!

19:34 - Outro

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Hi, I am Gaya3. I am a bibliophile who loves to write. I am a 26-year-old Technical writer who lives in India. Outside work I spend my time reading books, writing my WIP, and enjoying long conversations. I am not a book reviewer or a writing coach. I am just capturing moments from my reading and writing life here.



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