Brit Bennett

American novelist, author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half.

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Brit Bennett is an American novelist and the author of The Mothers and The Vanishing Half.

The Vanishing Half follows identical twin sisters whose lives split apart when one of them decides to pass as white.

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The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

Identical twins run away from their small Southern town at sixteen. Years later, one lives as a Black woman, the other secretly passes as white.

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