I N C L U D E S A F F I L I A T E L I N K S
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Title: The Vanishing HalfAuthor: Brit Bennett
Published: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 352
Rating: 5/5
Summary:
Two identical girl twins grow up in a small Southern black community and runs away at the age of sixteen, and end up living very different lives; one having a dark child with a black man and the other passing for white in an affluent neighbourhood in California.
Review:
This book has been everywhere for the past couple of months and the hype has been high, and for once, I feel like the book actually lived up to it.
There are a lot of things going on in this book and a lot of themes it explores, and sometimes when you read a book with so many things in it, it feels overwhelming or like there wasn't enough room for everything, but this somehow manages to take in all of it and still have it be a readable, fascinating and eye-opening novel that treats its themes and characters with great care.
I think it's really interesting how we get to meet these twins and then as we go along, we eventually meet both of their daughters. I loved reading about all of them and seeing their inner dialogue and struggles, and I think seeing this story from all of these different perspectives suited the book really well. It's a well written story with beautifully crafted characters.
It's really difficult to summarise this book in any sort of substantial way, but overall, I think this is an excellent novel about race, family, identity and belonging and I would highly, highly recommend it.
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