The Vanishing Half

Resumen del libro

'The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel. 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, winner of the Booker Prize 2019The 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' story lines 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.

Praise for Brit Bennett: 'A writer to watch' Washington Post 'Bennett allows her characters to follow their worst impulses, and she handles provocative issues with intelligence, empathy and dark humour' New York Times 'A beautifully written, sad and lingering book' Guardian on The Mothers

Biografía del autor

Brit Bennett (Oceanside, Califòrnia, 1990) es va formar a les universitats de Stanford i de Michigan, on va obtenir diversos premis literaris. Ha publicat en revistes com The Paris Review, The New York Times, The NYT Magazine i The New Yorker. La seva primera novel-la, The mothers (2016), li va valdre un èxit considerable de crítica i públic i va guanyar el premi de la revista francesa Lire a la millor novel-la estrangera de lx{0026} x02019;any. El mateix any va rebre el premi 5 under 35 de la National Book Foundation, que reconeix els cinc millors escriptors de menys de trenta-cinc anys. La meitat evanescent (Periscopi, 2021) és la primera obra de Bennett que es publica en català, ha estat nominada al National Book Award i ha estat considerada un dels llibres de lx{0026} x02019;any pels principals mitjans nord-americans.