He's also the pastor's son, and you know what they say about pastors' kids. The trio is rounded out by Luke, a former football star sidelined by injury who's now working as a waiter at a restaurant on the beach. Nadia's mother recently committed suicide, and Aubrey's long ago abandoned her. The two girls are slowly drawn to each other by the fact that they're both motherless. Aubrey is the shy, nice girl who wears a purity ring and spends all her free time volunteering at church. She's got a scholarship to the University of Michigan.
Nadia is the smart, beautiful girl who's going places. Now Bennett, at age 26, is generating still more buzz with her debut novel called "The Mothers." It's a coming-of-age story about three friends, all African-American, who first become aware of each other in high school and through the church in their community in Southern California. What a privilege, to concern yourself with seeming good while the rest of us want to seem worthy of life. She said, (reading) I feel surrounded by black death. Bennett spoke powerfully to those good white people in her essay. MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Brit Bennett first generated major buzz with a provocative 2014 essay she wrote in the wake of the Ferguson uprising entitled "I Don't Know What To Do With Good White People." In that essay, written for the online magazine Jezebel, Bennett explored her own contradictory emotions as a young black woman in the company of white liberal friends who seemed to want approval from her for not being racists. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan has a review of "The Mothers" by Brit Bennett. One of October's most talked about books is a debut novel about a trio of young African-Americans in Southern California who are dealing with their community's expectations and their own mistakes and ambitions.
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