The mothers brit7/2/2023 Instead, we trace the coming-of-age journeys of three teenagers: Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey. With the uncomplicated ease only a black writer can manage, everyone in the book is black unless described otherwise.Īlthough Nadia’s abortion is not easily compartmentalised, The Mothers is much more than a cautionary tale about teenage sex. It makes all the points it needs to without being obvious. The Mothers isn’t explicitly feminist, in the same way that it isn’t explicitly a novel about “the black experience”. But she doesn’t pretend it never happened. Nadia doesn’t want to be pregnant, so she has an abortion, and gets on with her life. The contentious issue surrounds the novel, and it’s a credit to Bennett that it’s dealt with so carefully in her narrative. That abortion could negatively affect a woman’s life in the long term is a narrative usually reserved for the most rabid of anti-choice activists.
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