The
Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
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Named
a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post,
Harper’s Bazaar, Buzzfeed, PureWow, New York Magazine and more
“A
page-turner about once-inseparable twin girls now living radically different
lives.” —Oprah Magazine
“Not
to be missed.” —Harper’s Bazaar
From
The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel
about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in
two very different worlds, one black and one white.
The Vignes twin sisters will
always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black
community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their
daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their
communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with
her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The
other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her
past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates
of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when
their own daughters' storylines intersect?
Weaving together multiple
strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from
the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a
riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American
history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half
considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions,
desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms
in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their
origins.
As with her New York
Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing
page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative,
compassionate and wise.
Product
details
Print Length : 352 pages
Publisher :
Riverhead Books (June 2, 2020)
Publication Date : June 2, 2020
Sold by : Amazon.com Services
LLC
Language : English
ASIN : B07XNG5L99
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