The Vanishing Half

By Brit Bennett

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Identical twin sisters raised in a small Black community in Louisiana run away at sixteen. One returns home with her dark-skinned daughter, while the other secretly passes as white, and the novel follows their lives and their daughters' across decades.

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