The Vanishing Half - by Brit Bennett (Hardcover) Praise for The Vanishing Half:  Bennett's gorgeously written second novel, an ambitious meditation on race and identity, considers the divergent fates of twin sisters, born in the Jim Crow South, after one decides to pass for white. Bennett balances the literary demands of dynamic characterization with the historical and social realities of her subject matter.  - The New York Times  Bennett pulls it off brilliantly... Few novels manage to remain interesting from start to finish, even -- maybe especially -- the brilliant ones. But... Bennett locks readers in and never lets them go... Stunning...She leaves any weighty parallels -- between, for example, racial and gender determinism -- to the reader. Her restraint is the novel's great strength, and it's tougher than it looks... The Vanishing Half speaks ultimately of a universal vanishing. It concerns the half of everyone that disappears once we leave home -- love or hate the place, love or hate ourselves.  - Los Angeles Times  Breathtaking plot.  --People  I don't think I've read a book that covers passing in the way that this one does . . epic.  --Kiley Reid in O, the Oprah Magazine  Here, in her sensitive, elegant prose, [Bennett] evokes both the strife of racism, and what it does to a person even if they can evade some of its elements. --Vogue  Bennett creates a striking portrait of racial identity in America.  --TIME  Bennett writes like a master, reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Anne Tyler and Elizabeth Strout.  --BookPage  This is sure to be one of 2020's best and boldest... A tale of family, identity, race, history, and perception, Bennett's next masterpiece is a triumph of character-driven narrative.  --Elle  Irresistible ... an intergenerational epic of race and reinvention, love and inheritance, divisions made and crossed, binding trauma, and the ever-present past.  --Booklist, STARRED Review  Assured and magnetic. . .Bennett is deeply engaged in the unknowabilit
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