The Mothers

The Mothers is a beautifully written, sad and lingering book - an impressive debut for such a young writer * Guardian * Bennett allows her characters to follow their worst impulses, and she handles provocative issues with intelligence, empathy and dark humour. Her risk-taking pays off * New York Times * Brit Bennett is rightfully being hailed a brilliant new voice writing about black women . . . This is a novel with heart - it made me feel; it made me think. And I can't wait to read more of her * The Pool * Brit Bennett's debut is often funny, generous, and brightly written * GQ * [A]n engaging and assured debut novel of depth, and introspective power. It succeeds as a brilliant study of a modern black woman, and as a lyrical and majestic portrait of her place in society -- Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen Brit Bennett is so bracingly talented on the page. . .[The Mothers is] astute and absorbing and urgent * Jezebel * A quite beautiful book: shimmering with intelligence; fully alive to both the joyful and the difficult part of love; illuminating on motherhood * Times Literary Supplement * Tenderly written * Elle * Compelling * New Yorker * Bennett has written that rare combination: a book that feels alive on the page and rich for later consideration. If you read The Mothers, you will learn a lot * Washington Post * Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught * New York Times Book Review * Luminous... engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss * People * A refreshingly fast-paced story of young love, race, and religious hypocrisy * Vanity Fair * Wonderful - warm and tender and necessary -- Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing

Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Her work is featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel. She is one of the National Book Foundation's 2016 5 Under 35 honorees.