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The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
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ISBN10: 0525536299
ISBN13: 9780525536291
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Jun 2 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards, National Book Awards
ISBN13: 9780525536291
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: Jun 2 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Awards: National Book Awards, National Book Awards
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE WASHINGTON POST - NPR - PEOPLE - TIME MAGAZINE - VANITY FAIR - GLAMOUR - BARACK OBAMA New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
NAMED A BEST BOOK BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE WASHINGTON POST - NPR - PEOPLE - TIME MAGAZINE - VANITY FAIR - GLAMOUR - BARACK OBAMA New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye. --Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal 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.
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