A review by starstuff
The Mothers by Brit Bennett

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

I love Brit Bennett’s writing style, I adored The Vanishing Half, but this was not quite on the same level for me. What held me back from rating it higher was the not very nuanced conversation around abortion. 
I feel like it was all one-sided: 17yo has abortion and then spends the rest of almost decade following that decision regretting it. The attitude of the other characters in the story also fell on the same side of the conversation: abortion is murder. Unborn fetuses being referred to as “babies” all the time didn’t help.
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