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A stunning 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’ story lines 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. 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 bestselling debut novel The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
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Summary
Summary
#1 New York Times bestseller
Finalist for the National Book Awards for Fiction
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
One of Audible’s “10 Best Audio Books of the Year”
New York Times Bestseller in Audio
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Time Magazine Book of the Year
A Vanity Fair Magazine Pick of the Year's Best Books
A People Magazine Best Book of 2020
A Washington Post Best Book of 2020
An NPR Best Book of the Year
BookPage Best Book of the Year in Fiction
A Good Morning America Selection
A Libro.FM Pick of the Year's Best Audiobooks
A USA Today bestseller
A #1 iBooks bestseller in Fiction
A BookPage Top Pick of the Month
A June 2020 LibraryReads Pick
A stunning 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’ story lines 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.
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 bestselling debut novel The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
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Available Formats : | Digital Download, CD |
Category: | Fiction/Women |
Runtime: | 11.57 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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