The vanishing half / Brit Bennett.
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525536291
- ISBN: 0525536299
- ISBN: 9780525536963
- ISBN: 0525536965
- Physical Description: 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.
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Subject: | Twins > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. African American women > Fiction. United States > History > 20th century > Fiction. |
Genre: | Detective and mystery fiction. |
Available copies
- 9 of 11 copies available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 11 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Coplay Public Library | FIC BEN (Text) | 31961000256004 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | FIC BENNETT, BRIT (Text) | 36446002016270 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/04/2024 |
Lehighton Area Memorial Library | F BEN (Text) | 30445100203273 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Lower Macungie Library | FIC BEN (Text) | 33400001483729 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/03/2024 |
Palmerton Area Library | F B43 (Text)
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Donation Made by Marion Latham in Memorial of Alice McKinley
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65000000024598 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Parkland Community Library | F BEN (Text) | 34422007165273 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Public Library of Catasauqua | F BEN (Text) | 70000000146956 | Stacks | Available | - |
Slatington Public Library | F BEN (Text) | 30000001004914 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Southern Lehigh Public Library | FIC BEN (Text) | 30044100832098 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Whitehall Township Public Library | F BENNETT, BRIT (Text) | 36305002900059 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |