Books like the vanishing half5/22/2023 ![]() I have been reading a lot of Literary Fiction lately and most of them had managed to impress me and this novel is no exception. “She hadn’t realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.” ― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters’ storylines intersect? ![]() Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. ![]() The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. 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. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. ![]()
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