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. In turn, the primary complications surrounding Nadia’s abortion in The Mothers have to do with her own emotional misgivings and the judgment she fears from her community, not with her access to medical professionals willing and able to perform the procedure.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. Although the abortion debate rages on throughout America and remains a polarizing, highly politicized topic, organizations like Planned Parenthood advocate to make reproductive healthcare available to everybody. Even today, particularly conservative, religious states still don’t offer wide access to abortion. However, many religious groups remained vehemently against the procedure. Wade that abortion be legalized across the nation, upholding that women have the right to control their pregnancies. In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Despite the illegality of the procedure, many women still found ways to abort their pregnancies, and several states even made the operation legal again.
In 1900, abortion was considered a felony throughout the United States, though some states made exceptions in certain cases. In The Mothers, Nadia’s character development and emotional life are both intimately tied to her abortion, echoing the United States’ tumultuous past and present. Two years later, when she was just twenty-six, Bennett published her debut novel, The Mothers, earning her a place on the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” list of breakout writers.
“I Don’t Know What To Do With Good White People” attracted millions of readers in only several days, spreading Bennett’s name throughout the literary community and beyond. In 2014, Bennett wrote an article for Jezebel entitled “I Don’t Know What To Do With Good White People.” The piece was published in response to the fact that police officer Darren Wilson-who shot and killed eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri-was not indicted for his crime. She also briefly studied at Oxford, making her the first person in her family to leave the country.
Upon graduating from high school, she majored in English at Stanford before pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at University of Michigan. Brit Bennett was born in Oceanside, California, where she spent the next seventeen years of her life.
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