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005			20200721124427.0
008			200207s2020 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2020005358
020			_a9780525536291 _q(hardcover)
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050	0	0	_aPS3602.E66444 _bV36 2020
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100	1		_aBennett, Brit, _eauthor. _9101106
245	1	4	_aThe vanishing half /
264		1	_aNew York : _bRiverhead Books, _c2020.
300			_a343 pages ; _c25 cm
520			_a"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"--
650		0	_aTwins _vFiction. _9101107
650		0	_aSisters _vFiction. _9101108
650		0	_aAfrican American women _vFiction. _9101109
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y20th century _vFiction. _9101110
655		7	_aMystery fiction. _2gsafd _9101111
655		7	_aDetective and mystery fiction. _2lcgft _9101112
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBennett, Brit, _tThe vanishing half _dNew York : Riverhead Books, 2020. _z9780525536970 _w(DLC) 2020005359
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