The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett · 2020
Literary Fiction · ranked #161 in category
Twin sisters Desiree and Stella Vignes run away from their small Southern Black community at sixteen — and their lives split: one returns home with her dark-skinned daughter, the other passes as white in a life her family knows nothing about. Bennett's novel spans generations to ask what race is, what it costs to perform an identity, and what is owed to the people you leave behind.
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