Bennett, Brit,
The vanishing half / Brit Bennett - 343 pages ; 24 cm
"Good Morning America book club"--Cover
Part I: The lost twins (1968) -- Part II: Maps (1978) -- Part III: Heartlines (1968) -- Part IV: The stage door (1982) -- Part V: Pacific Cove (1985/1988) -- Part VI: Places (1986)
"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. Ten 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? 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."--Provided by publisher
9780525536291 0525536299 9780349702315 0349702314
Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 SAN 201-3975
2020005358
Twins--Fiction
Sisters--Fiction
African American women--Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction
Passing (Identity)--Fiction
Racially mixed families--United States--Fiction
Colorism--United States--Fiction
Twins--Fiction
Twins.
African Americans.
Siblings.
United States--History--20th century--Fiction
Bildungsromans
Psychological fiction
Mystery fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
PS3602.E66444 / V36 2020
813/.6
PS 3602.E66444 / V36 2020
The vanishing half / Brit Bennett - 343 pages ; 24 cm
"Good Morning America book club"--Cover
Part I: The lost twins (1968) -- Part II: Maps (1978) -- Part III: Heartlines (1968) -- Part IV: The stage door (1982) -- Part V: Pacific Cove (1985/1988) -- Part VI: Places (1986)
"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. Ten 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? 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."--Provided by publisher
9780525536291 0525536299 9780349702315 0349702314
Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 SAN 201-3975
2020005358
Twins--Fiction
Sisters--Fiction
African American women--Fiction
Identity (Philosophical concept)--Fiction
Passing (Identity)--Fiction
Racially mixed families--United States--Fiction
Colorism--United States--Fiction
Twins--Fiction
Twins.
African Americans.
Siblings.
United States--History--20th century--Fiction
Bildungsromans
Psychological fiction
Mystery fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Fiction.
PS3602.E66444 / V36 2020
813/.6
PS 3602.E66444 / V36 2020