Author
Brit Bennett
We've read and reviewed Brit Bennett's literary fiction and contemporary book The Vanishing Half on Book of the Day — scored and written up in full, with a clear verdict on who it's for.
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.