Book Review Vanishing Half

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Book review vanishing half. Four years later her second the vanishing half more than lives up to her early promise. A reader can guess what is coming. It s an even better book more expansive yet also deeper a multi generational family saga that tackles.

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. The vanishing half by brit bennett considers fraught questions of racial identity personal freedom and community in a story that stretches from the jim crow south to 1980s los angeles. Brit bennett author bio.

They linger in a netherworld negotiating. The vanishing half by brit bennett review two faces of the black experience. June 1 2020 at 5 11 p m.

Edt brit bennett s new novel the vanishing half is about people who disappear in search of another life a better place. Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism. It is without a doubt one of my favorite books.

All this is expertly paced unfurling before the book is half finished. The vanishing half brit bennett s second novel is powerful and incredibly relevant given the moment our society is in right now. The story follows twin sisters growing up in rural louisiana in the.

A light skinned twin sister constructs a new identity as a white woman in a clever novel that confounds expectations. The scene in which stella adopts her white persona is a tour de force of doubling and confusion. The vanishing half by brit bennett is a book that will forever stay with me.