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Brit Bennett and Kiley Reid join us for a virtual #BNBookClub discussion about THE VANISHING HALF! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...
This Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition includes an essay by Brit Bennett and a reading group guide for book clubs.
“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
“This is sure to be one of 2020’s best and boldest . . . Bennett’s next masterpiece is a triumph of character-driven narrative.” -Elle
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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@levipatterson6259 3 жыл бұрын

Finished the book yesterday. Loved it. Despite not knowing her grandmother, I had hoped that Kennedy would have showed up for Adele’s funeral.

@madjoabutterfly 3 жыл бұрын

Just finished 'The Vanishing Half,' kudos to Brit Bennett, great interview & discussion!

@janetberson8746 3 жыл бұрын

wonderful discussion. I loved the book. On so many levels. I have twin daughters and I was riveted by the impact of that separation. So many dimensions of the characters - reading it for my book group. What an interesting discussion we will have.

@cherylynlarking191 2 жыл бұрын

Just finished Such a Fun Age and now tackling The Vanishing Half -such powerful messages.

@seangoodman2642 3 жыл бұрын

This summer 2 of my best book discussions for book club was Such a Fun Age and The Vanishing Half. I read The Mothers this week. I look so forward to following Bennett's career. Love her work.

@angelawynn2375 3 жыл бұрын

This was the inaugural choice for our book club and we loved it!

@susancurrie9246 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this novel it was one of the best reads ever. Well done Britt. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@nicholarichards4803 2 жыл бұрын

The Vanishing Half is a brilliant book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it

@janetbarber6781 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this interview! Thank you both : ) Brit, the depth of identity as perception and the complexities (...and simplicity) of change is brilliantly written in your marvelous novel. Thank you ever so much for this page-turning work.

@jeffreystoodt1187 3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering whether or not Brit had heard of the horrible experience that Nat King Cole had in the LA community when he moved into a white neighborhood. That was back in the ‘50s. Also I wish a discussion of the movie “Imitation of Life” took place here. It was a very popular plot-made twice with Janet Gaynor and then later in the ‘50s with Lana Turner.

@amarbyrd2520 Жыл бұрын

"I was wondering whether or not Brit had heard of the horrible experience that Nat King Cole had in the LA community when he moved into a white neighborhood. " I'm sure she knows about it. She IS a New York Times bestselling author and a well-educated scholar.