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In Brit Bennett’s absorbing debut novel,
The Mothers
, ideas about Mothers and Motherhood are brought into sharp focus when viewed through the lenses of family, friendship, love, envy and most emphatically, Community. I was impressed with the use of a chorus of voices of the Mothers of the Upper Room Chapel to progress the novel’s plot; it was a clever and inventive device. The novel’s young protagonists put me in mind of the young people of Sally Rooney’s hugely successful novel and televisi
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