The Mothers by Brit Bennett book Start-up burnouts leap into the

Start-up burnouts leap into the paths of commuter trains

a single mother more interested in a paycheck than homework

she isn’t certain of anything except for her love for her kids and her growing realization that this place

In her bones

are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific

The Mothers by Brit Bennett book Start-up burnouts leap into theSet 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