Description
Brit Bennett’s debut novel explores the theme of love, community, and personal trauma. Set in a Southern California seaside town, the story follows Nadia Turner, a young woman grappling with a life-altering decision of her mother’s suicide. Afterward, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance—and the subsequent cover-up—will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.
