The Vanishing Half

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. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern...

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. Many 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.

布里特·本尼特（Brit Bennett） ，1990年出生，本科毕业于斯坦福大学，在密歇根大学取得文学硕士学位。她不定期于《纽约客》《纽约时报》《巴黎评论》发表文章，并于2016年出版第一部小说《好女孩》（The Mothers），大获好评。该书被《纽约时报》评论为当年秋季最 重要的初试啼声之作，将由华纳兄弟公司改编为电影、《时代》百大人物暨知名演员凯莉•华盛顿（Kerry Washington）担任制作人。同年，布里获美国国家图书基金会（National Book Foundation）评选的“在三十五岁以下发表处女作的优秀作者”之一。2020年，她第二部长篇小说《消失的另一半》甫出版随即登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜第一名，亦是知名广播节目“早安美国读书会”最佳选书。该书人物们各自不同的人生选择/身份认同问题引发了来自不同领域读者的强烈共鸣和热烈探讨...

布里特·本尼特（Brit Bennett） ，1990年出生，本科毕业于斯坦福大学，在密歇根大学取得文学硕士学位。她不定期于《纽约客》《纽约时报》《巴黎评论》发表文章，并于2016年出版第一部小说《好女孩》（The Mothers），大获好评。该书被《纽约时报》评论为当年秋季最 重要的初试啼声之作，将由华纳兄弟公司改编为电影、《时代》百大人物暨知名演员凯莉•华盛顿（Kerry Washington）担任制作人。同年，布里获美国国家图书基金会（National Book Foundation）评选的“在三十五岁以下发表处女作的优秀作者”之一。2020年，她第二部长篇小说《消失的另一半》甫出版随即登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜第一名，亦是知名广播节目“早安美国读书会”最佳选书。该书人物们各自不同的人生选择/身份认同问题引发了来自不同领域读者的强烈共鸣和热烈探讨，被数十家欧美主流媒体评委年度优秀图书。