The vanishing half : a novel / Brit Bennett.
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TextPublisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020Description: 343 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780525536291Other title: The vanishing half [Cover title]Subject(s): Twins -- Fiction | Sisters -- Fiction | African American women -- Fiction | United States -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Historical fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. Summary: "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. 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' storylines intersect?"-- Provided by publisher.
| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | BENN (Browse shelf) | Available | 62065 |
"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. 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' storylines intersect?"-- Provided by publisher.
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