![]() 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. From The New York Times-bestselling author of. When I was writing The Vanishing Half, my family thought it would be funny to watch the Netflix documentary about a former white NAACP president passing for Black. 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’ story lines 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. The Vanishing Half has been named the best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR. 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. Her essays have been featured in many publications. ![]() The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. ![]()
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