Catch Up on the Best Books of 2016

"All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen, and passed around before its season." And so begins The Mothers, a gorgeous debut novel about a high school senior who is mourning her mother’s death from suicide and finding solace by spending time with the pastor’s son. Narrated in part by the elders from Church, the novel spans years at a time, and shows how one secret has the power to change lives.