{"id":69846,"date":"2025-08-20T05:53:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/the-vanishing-half-a-gma-book-club-pick-a-novel\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T05:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T05:53:20","slug":"the-vanishing-half-a-gma-book-club-pick-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/the-vanishing-half-a-gma-book-club-pick-a-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<\/p>\n

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR<\/p>\n

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES \u2022 THE WASHINGTON POST \u2022 NPR \u2022 PEOPLE \u2022 TIME MAGAZINE \u2022 VANITY FAIR \u2022 GLAMOUR <\/p>\n

New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century <\/p>\n

2021 WOMEN’S PRIZE FINALIST<\/p>\n

\u201cBennett\u2019s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it\u2019s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison\u2019s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.\u201d \u2014Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n

\u201cA story of absolute, universal timelessness . . . For any era, it’s an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it\u2019s piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be\u2026.\u201d \u2013 Entertainment Weekly<\/p>\n

From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, 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.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise. <\/p>\n

Publisher \u200f : \u200e Riverhead Books
Publication date \u200f : \u200e February 1, 2022
Edition \u200f : \u200e Reprint
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Print length \u200f : \u200e 400 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0525536965
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0525536963
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.1 x 1.1 x 7.9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #6,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #76 in Black & African American Women’s Fiction (Books) #232 in Literary Fiction (Books) #310 in Women’s Domestic Life Fiction
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