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For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be....\" \u003ci\u003e- Entertainment Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. Many 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' storylines intersect? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving 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\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eLooking well beyond issues of race, \u003ci\u003e The Vanishing Half\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs with her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling debut \u003ci\u003eThe Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Mothers, \u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and a finalist for both the NBCC John Leonard First Novel Prize and the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Half, \u003c\/i\u003ewas an instant\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller, longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Women's Prize, and named one of the ten best books of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times. \u003c\/i\u003eBennet has been named a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, a NAACP Image Award Finalist, and one of \u003ci\u003eTime's\u003c\/i\u003e Next 100 Influential People. 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