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Author Bennett, Brit, author

Title The vanishing half / Brit Bennett
Published New York : Riverhead Books, 2020
©2020

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 MELB  810.6 B47125 A6/V  AVAILABLE
Description 343 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "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. Ten 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."--Provided by publisher
Subject Twins -- Fiction
Sisters -- Fiction
African American women -- Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Fiction
Passing (Identity) -- Fiction
SUBJECT United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genre/Form History
Detective fiction
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
LC no. 2020005358
ISBN 0525536299
9780349702315
9780525536291
0349702314