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Jun 2, 2020 · 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.
The Vanishing Half is a historical fiction novel by American author Brit Bennett. It is her second novel and was published by Riverhead Books in 2020. The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list .
The Vanishing Half is a multi-generational, multi-geographic novel that moves fluidly between the past and the present, from the 1950s to the late 1990s, and from the small, light-skinned-obsessed town of Mallard to New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York, and Minneapolis.
HALF. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! 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.
Jun 2, 2020 · The Vanishing Half speaks ultimately of a universal vanishing. It concerns the half of everyone that disappears once we leave home — love or hate the place, love or hate ourselves.” — Los Angeles Times “Provides a meditation on the nuance of race that feels important, now more than ever.
Jun 2, 2020 · The best study guide to The Vanishing Half on the planet, from the creators of SparkNotes. Get the summaries, analysis, and quotes you need.
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.
May 29, 2020 · “The Vanishing Half,” by Brit Bennett, considers fraught questions of racial identity, personal freedom and community in a story that stretches from the Jim Crow South to 1980s Los...
Jun 11, 2020 · Brit Bennett’s breathtaking The Vanishing Half is a dark fairy tale about passing for white. In this new novel, one light-skinned twin marries a dark-skinned man. The other starts...
Jun 2, 2020 · The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) Kindle Edition. by Brit Bennett (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.4 123,199 ratings. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.
