The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennet

from All About Books · host Nebraska Public Media

In the novel “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett, twin sisters fleeing their small town life, head to New Orleans where one sister discovers she can pass as white. Here begins a fracture that will separate them in this story of sisterhood and black personal identity.

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