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Brit Bennett

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The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half follows identical twins who run from a small Black Louisiana town and wind up living on opposite sides of the color line, one passing as white, the other returning home with a dark-skinned daughter. It's a literary family saga about identity, inheritance, and the cost of reinvention, told across four decades.