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Vanishing Half : A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel) by Brit Bennett (2020, Hardcover)
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From The New York Times -bestselling author of The Mothers , a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. 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 . Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times -bestselling debut The Mothers , Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100525536299
ISBN-139780525536291
eBay Product ID (ePID)15038776133
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Book TitleVanishing Half : a GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Contemporary Women, Family Life, Coming of Age, Literary
Publication Year2020
GenreFiction
AuthorBrit Bennett
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight20.4 Oz, 19 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-005358
Dewey Edition23
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ReviewsPraise for The Vanishing Half: "[Bennett's] fiction is filled with very simple truths that are extremely wise." - Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal "Not to be missed." -- Harper's Bazaar "Here, in her sensitive, elegant prose, [Bennett] evokes both the strife of racism, and what it does to a person even if they can evade some of its elements."-- Vogue "This is sure to be one of 2020's best and boldest... A tale of family, identity, race, history, and perception, Bennett's next masterpiece is a triumph of character-driven narrative." - Elle "A page-turner about once-inseparable twin girls now living radically different lives." -- O, The Oprah Magazine "Worth an early pre-order. It's a curvy, looping story... a fitting complement to her debut book, 2017's The Mothers . I gobbled this up." - Bustle "Reflecting and refracting her story via the four related women--sisters, cousins, mothers, daughters--at its heart, and with an irresistible narrative voice, Bennett ( The Mothers , 2016) writes an intergenerational epic of race and reinvention, love and inheritance, divisions made and crossed, binding trauma, and the ever-present past." - Booklist , STARRED Review "Assured and magnetic. . .Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism...calls up Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the book's 50-year-old antecedent. . . . [a] rich, sharp story about the way identity is formed."--Kirkus, STARRED review "Impressive ... Bennett renders her characters and their struggles with great compassion, and explores the complicated state of mind that Stella finds herself in while passing as white. This prodigious follow-up surpasses Bennett's formidable debut." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED review "The detail and the feeling showcased in every sentence Brit Bennett writes is breath taking. The Vanishing Half is a novel that shows just how human emotion, uncertainty and longing can be captured and put on paper." - Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie "A novel of immense, shining, powerful intelligence." -Deborah Levy, two-time Booker shortlisted novelist "An impressive and arresting novel. Perceptive in its insights and poised in execution, this is an important, timely examination of the impact of race on personality, experience and relationships." - Diana Evans, the Orange Award winning author of Ordinary People "The Vanishing Half should mark the induction of Brit Bennett into the small group of likely successors to Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen.." - Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton " The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel, which gripped me from the first word to the last. It seduces with its literary flair, surprises with its breath-taking plot twists, delights with its psychological insights, and challenges us to consider the corrupting consequences of racism on different communities and individual lives. I absolutely loved this book." -- Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Praise for The Vanishing Half: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Buzzfeed, PureWow, New York Magazine and more "A page-turner about once-inseparable twin girls now living radically different lives." -- Oprah Magazine "Not to be missed." -- Harper's Bazaar "Assured and magnetic. . .Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism...calls up Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye , the book's 50-year-old antecedent. . . . [a] rich, sharp story about the way identity is formed."--Kirkus, STARRED review "Impressive ... Bennett renders her characters and their struggles with great compassion, and explores the complicated state of mind that Stella finds herself in while passing as white. This prodigious follow-up surpasses Bennett's formidable debut." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW, Praise for The Vanishing Half: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Buzzfeed, PureWow, New York Magazine and more "The detail and the feeling showcased in every sentence Brit Bennett writes is breath taking. The Vanishing Half is a novel that shows just how human emotion, uncertainty and longing can be captured and put on paper." - Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie "A novel of immense, shining, powerful intelligence." -Deborah Levy, two-time Booker shortlisted novelist "An impressive and arresting novel. Perceptive in its insights and poised in execution, this is an important, timely examination of the impact of race on personality, experience and relationships." - Diana Evans, the Orange Award winning author of Ordinary People "The Vanishing Half should mark the induction of Brit Bennett into the small group of likely successors to Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen.." - Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton " The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel, which gripped me from the first word to the last. It seduces with its literary flair, surprises with its breath-taking plot twists, delights with its psychological insights, and challenges us to consider the corrupting consequences of racism on different communities and individual lives. I absolutely loved this book." -- Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other "A page-turner about once-inseparable twin girls now living radically different lives." -- Oprah Magazine "Not to be missed." -- Harper's Bazaar "Assured and magnetic. . .Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism...calls up Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye , the book's 50-year-old antecedent. . . . [a] rich, sharp story about the way identity is formed."--Kirkus, STARRED review "Impressive ... Bennett renders her characters and their struggles with great compassion, and explores the complicated state of mind that Stella finds herself in while passing as white. This prodigious follow-up surpasses Bennett's formidable debut." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW, Praise for The Vanishing Half: "Bennett''s gorgeously written second novel, an ambitious meditation on race and identity, considers the divergent fates of twin sisters, born in the Jim Crow South, after one decides to pass for white. Bennett balances the literary demands of dynamic characterization with the historical and social realities of her subject matter." - The New York Times "Bennett pulls it off brilliantly... Few novels manage to remain interesting from start to finish, even -- maybe especially -- the brilliant ones. But... Bennett locks readers in and never lets them go... Stunning...She leaves any weighty parallels -- between, for example, racial and gender determinism -- to the reader. Her restraint is the novel''s great strength, and it''s tougher than it looks... The Vanishing Half speaks ultimately of a universal vanishing. It concerns the half of everyone that disappears once we leave home -- love or hate the place, love or hate ourselves." - Los Angeles Times "Breathtaking plot." -- People "I don''t think I''ve read a book that covers passing in the way that this one does . . epic." -- Kiley Reid in O, the Oprah Magazine "Here, in her sensitive, elegant prose, [Bennett] evokes both the strife of racism, and what it does to a person even if they can evade some of its elements." -- Vogue "Bennett creates a striking portrait of racial identity in America." -- TIME "Bennett writes like a master, reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout." -- BookPage "This is sure to be one of 2020''s best and boldest... A tale of family, identity, race, history, and perception, Bennett''s next masterpiece is a triumph of character-driven narrative." -- Elle "Irresistible ... an intergenerational epic of race and reinvention, love and inheritance, divisions made and crossed, binding trauma, and the ever-present past." -- Booklist , STARRED Review "Assured and magnetic. . .Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowability of other people and the scourge of colorism...calls up Toni Morrison''s The Bluest Eye, the book''s 50-year-old antecedent. . . . [a] rich, sharp story about the way identity is formed."-- Kirkus, STARRED review "Impressive ... This prodigious follow-up surpasses Bennett''s formidable debut."-- Publishers Weekly, STARRED review " The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel, which gripped me from the first word to the last. It seduces with its literary flair, surprises with its breath-taking plot twists, delights with its psychological insights, and challenges us to consider the corrupting consequences of racism on different communities and individual lives. I absolutely loved this book." -- Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other "The detail and the feeling showcased in every sentence Brit Bennett writes is breath taking. The Vanishing Half is a novel that shows just how human emotion, uncertainty and longing can be captured and put on paper." --Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie "A novel of immense, shining, powerful intelligence." --Deborah Levy, two-time Booker shortlisted novelist "An impressive and arresting novel. Perceptive in its insights and poised in execution, this is an important, timely examination of the impact of race on personality, experience and relationships." -- Diana Evans, the Orange Award winning author of Ordinary People "The Vanishing Half should mark the induction of Brit Bennett into the small group of likely successors to Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, and Nella Larsen.." --Sara Collins, author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Target AudienceTrade
Dewey Decimal813.6
Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR * PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE * VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST "Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye." --Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal " A story of absolute, universal timelessness . . . For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be...." - Entertainment Weekly From The New York Times -bestselling author of The Mothers , a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. 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. Many 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 . Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times -bestselling debut The Mothers , Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise., #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES - THE WASHINGTON POST - NPR - PEOPLE - TIME MAGAZINE - VANITY FAIR - GLAMOUR New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST "Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye." --Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal " A story of absolute, universal timelessness . . . For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be...." - Entertainment Weekly From The New York Times -bestselling author of The Mothers , a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. 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. Many 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 . Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times -bestselling debut The Mothers , Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise., From The New York Times -bestselling author of The Mothers , a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. 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 . Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times -bestselling debut The Mothers , Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
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- Jan 26, 2021
Good first half
the first half of the book Tha Vanishing Half is good, but in the last half it seems that the author just wanted to finish the book. The continuity was not presentVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Aug 16, 2021
You’ve Never Read Anything So Compelling
I got off to a slow start with this novel but that quickly changed. Each page made me more eager to learn what happened next to the members of a most unusual family from a small Louisiana town that didn’t even rate a spot on the map. I loved the unpredictability of the story and the love that made the members of a unique family so willing to go in different directions.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Sep 07, 2021
Great book in great condition
The book came in like new condition. It’s one of the best books I’ve read in quite awhile.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Mar 23, 2021
The Vanishing Half Natural Selection or planned extinction?
Information on how U.S. legislators blocked jobs, housing, pay raises, accumulation of savings, wealth for non-Whites. Novel based on statistics.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jul 21, 2021
The title perfectly fits the story.
The Vanishing Half gave me so much more insight into what life was and still is for people that are biracial.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Oct 05, 2021
Extraordinary
This story was eye-opening for me. I love the way she developed her characters so we could understand why they did what they did. Highly recommendVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Aug 05, 2020
Relevant!
Great book! Nice summer read which was pertinent to today's climate.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Jan 05, 2021
Good book
I bought this book for my grandmother and she loves it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Jan 26, 2021
Excellent book in excellent condition!
Excellent book in excellent condition!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Sep 27, 2021
Great description
It was a great book! I would recommend it to anyone!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
