The Vanishing Half: A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR 

2021 WOMEN’S PRIZE FINALIST

“Bennett’s tone and elegance remembers James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, nevertheless it’s particularly paying homage to Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” —Kiley Reid, Wall Avenue Journal 

“A narrative of absolute, common timelessness …For any period, it is an achieved, affecting novel. For this second, it is piercing, subtly wending its method towards questions on who we’re and who we need to be….” – Leisure Weekly

From The New York Instances-bestselling writer of The Moms, a shocking new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as youngsters, who finally select to dwell in two very completely different worlds, one black and one white.

The Vignes twin sisters will at all times be an identical. However after rising up collectively in a small, southern black neighborhood and working away at age sixteen, it is not simply the form of their each day lives that’s completely different as adults, it is all the things: their households, their communities, their racial identities. A few years later, one sister lives together with her black daughter in the identical southern city she as soon as tried to flee. The opposite secretly passes for white, and her white husband is aware of nothing of her previous. Nonetheless, even separated by so many miles and simply as many lies, the fates of the twins stay intertwined. What’s going to occur to the subsequent era, when their very own daughters’ storylines intersect?

Weaving collectively a number of strands and generations of this household, from the Deep South to California, from the Nineteen Fifties to the Nineties, Brit Bennett produces a narrative that’s without delay a riveting, emotional household story and an excellent exploration of the American historical past of passing
. Wanting nicely past problems with race,
The Vanishing Half considers the lasting affect of the previous because it shapes an individual’s choices, wishes, and expectations, and explores among the a number of causes and realms during which individuals generally really feel pulled to dwell as one thing aside from their origins.

As together with her
New York Instances-bestselling debut
The Moms, Brit Bennett affords an engrossing page-turner about household and relationships that’s immersive and provocative, compassionate and smart.