The premise of the book is so interesting but it is so much more than that. I don’t know what else I can say that hasn’t been said about this book.

RatingĤ.5 Stars ( An Excellent Book!) My Thoughts I have been loving the GMA book club picks recently and I wanted to read more books by Black authors so I picked this one up. This book has been getting a lot of hype and I read some amazing reviews from OwnVoices reviewers on Instagram. 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. 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. 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. SynopsisĪ stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. I’m super excited to share my review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett with you today! This book has been everywhere and it was the GMA Book Club pick for June.

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