The Vanishing Half 2021
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixte.. Lire la suite
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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' story lines 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. 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.
