Book Review Of The Vanishing Half

Twins are divided by race in brit bennett s novel brit bennett s new novel centers on two light skinned african american sisters one of whom passes for white the.

Book review of the vanishing half. See featured authors answering questions. Ask and answer questions about books. The vanishing half may seem old fashioned but it s cleverly constructed to both match and critique the conservativism of the 1950s and 60s.

Review of the vanishing half the vanishing half was easily a five star book for me. While the first 50 pages were a bit slow as the reader tries to figure out the lay of the land thereafter you simply can t stop thinking about this book and waiting to dive back into it at every chance you get. The attenuated tone chimes with the restrained language.

Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism. A novel imagines the fate of twin sisters one passing for white brit bennett s the vanishing half is a brave foray into a particularly american existential conflict the tension between. Book of the day fiction the vanishing half by brit bennett review a twin s struggle to pass for white the author of the mothers brings fresh sensitivity to the subject of african americans.

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The vanishing half is written in a more conventional tight third person shifting between characters and generations primarily desiree and stella and their daughters one blueblack dark one. Readers questions about the vanishing half. 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.

The vanishing half brit bennett s second novel is powerful and incredibly relevant given the moment our society is in right now. All this is expertly paced unfurling before the book is half finished. You can escape a town but you cannot escape blood.