‘Bennett allows her characters to follow their worst impulses, and she handles provocative issues with intelligence, empathy and dark humour’ New York Times 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. 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. 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. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. I absolutely loved this book’ Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019” It seduces with its literary flair, surprises with its breath-taking plot twists, delights with its psychological insights, and challenges us to consider the corrupting consequences of racism on different communities and individual lives. 'Anthony Veasna So explores the lives of these unforgettable characters with bracing humor and startling tenderness.H&S Magazine’s Recommended Book Of The Week Brit Bennett The Vanishing Half Kindle Editionįrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers “The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel. 'A beautiful and blisteringly funny story collection from a young writer we lost far too soon,' Bennett said. The stories reveal the lives of Cambodian Americans in California who are navigating life as children of refugees from the Khmer Rouge genocide. This collection will be the posthumous debut publication of Cambodian-American writer Anthony Veasna So, who died at the age of 28 in December 2020. 3 but is currently available for pre-order. Editor's note: This book will be released on Aug.

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