![]() ![]() It actually is filled with vanishing halves, with a variety of men and women who hide secret selves, who reinvent themselves, who bury their pasts. Stella would be the vanishing half.īut Bennet’s novel is far more complex than that. When I began reading The Vanishing Half, I assumed the title reflected what the dust jacket reported. Stella never communicates with her sister Desiree either, so Desiree has no knowledge of the road her sister has taken. The other chooses to pass as white, going to Boston, marrying a white man, moving to Southern California, and never revealing her heritage. One remains Black, living for decades in the same small community where the twins were raised. Bennett tells the story of twins, two light-skinned Louisiana girls whose lives significantly diverge. The dust jacket details the basic premise of Brit Bennett’s novel, The Vanishing Half. ![]() It is probing, profound, and provocative, and not only about the subject of passing. The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett’s novel is more than its dustjacket suggests. ![]()
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