Monthly book discussion featuring works by African-American authors. You now have the option to attend in-person or on Zoom! Please register and choose your attendance option. Zoom links wil l be emailed out 1 week prior to discussion. Print copies of the book are available for checkout at the Adult Reference Desk on the 2nd floor. Email group facilitator Becky Clark at rclark@aurorapubliclibrary.org for more information.
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\nThe Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small\, southern black community and r unning 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 comm unities\, their racial identities. Many years later\, one sister lives wit h her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. T he other secretly passes for white\, and her white husband knows nothing o f 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 toget her multiple strands and generations of this family\, from the Deep South to California\, from the 1950s to the 1990s\, Brit Bennett produces a stor y that is at once a riveting\, emotional family story and a brilliant expl oration 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 Ne w 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.
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