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The Vanishing Half: A Novel
by Bennett, Brit
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0525536299
- ISBN 13
- 9780525536291
- Seller
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About This Item
Riverhead Books, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, 6th Printing. Not price-clipped ($27.00 price intact). Published by Riverhead Books, 2020. Octavo. Blue cloth over green boards stamped in copper. Signed by author on title page (flat signed, not tipped in). Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. A lovely signed copy of this New York Times bestselling historical fiction novel. 343 pages. ISBN: 978052536291. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 105247
- Title
- The Vanishing Half: A Novel
- Author
- Bennett, Brit
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0525536299
- ISBN 13
- 9780525536291
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Date Published
- 2020
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