The Vanishing Half

Product Description

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community & 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.

Ten 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, & her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles & 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 & 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 & 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, & expectations, & explores some of the multiple reasons & realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9780349701479
• Author: Brit Bennett
• Publisher: Dialogue Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 384 
• Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm