Book Review Of The Vanishing Half

You can escape a town but you cannot escape blood.

Book review of the vanishing half. 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 attenuated tone chimes with the restrained language. 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.

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. 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 review.

The vanishing half brit bennett s second novel is powerful and incredibly relevant given the moment our society is in right now. Brit bennett author bio. All this is expertly paced unfurling before the book is half finished.

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You can pose questions to the goodreads community with reader q a or ask your favorite author a question with ask the author. Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism. Ask and answer questions about books.

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. 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. The scene in which stella adopts her white persona is a tour de force of doubling and confusion.