"Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. She's grieving the death of her father (who she has more in common with than she'd like to admit), avoiding her supportive mom and loving boyfriend, and flagrantly ignoring her future. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother...

This sixth Jane Whitefield novel finds Jane, a Native American guide who helps people assume new identities, living quietly in upstate New York, married to a local doctor. Shortly after pregnant Christine Monahan arrives at the hospital where Jane's husband works looking desperately for Jane, a bomb explodes at a hospital fundraiser, and the two women flee cross-country with a team of hired hunters on their trail. After years of a happy, quiet life...

"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community -- and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...