![]() Instead, we trace the coming-of-age journeys of three teenagers: Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey. With the uncomplicated ease only a black writer can manage, everyone in the book is black unless described otherwise.Īlthough Nadia’s abortion is not easily compartmentalised, The Mothers is much more than a cautionary tale about teenage sex. It makes all the points it needs to without being obvious. The Mothers isn’t explicitly feminist, in the same way that it isn’t explicitly a novel about “the black experience”. But she doesn’t pretend it never happened. Nadia doesn’t want to be pregnant, so she has an abortion, and gets on with her life. ![]() The contentious issue surrounds the novel, and it’s a credit to Bennett that it’s dealt with so carefully in her narrative. ![]() That abortion could negatively affect a woman’s life in the long term is a narrative usually reserved for the most rabid of anti-choice activists. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |