A signed 1st edition of the 2nd novel from acclaimed American author and writer Brit Bennett, who rose to international prominence when her debut novel 'The Mothers ' (2016) became a New York Times best-seller, with Warner Bros. evidently signing the rights for a film adaptation.  This book was tipped by a number of reviewers to feature on the 2020 Booker Prize Longlist, and whilst it did not, it did feature on the lists for the National Book Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Orwell Prize.  HBO have also secured the rights to make a series based on the book.




'The Vanishing Half ', published on 11 June 2020 by Dialogue Books in London (an imprint of Little Brown), 1st edition, standard modern hardback, [viii] + 346 pages.   Includes a 2 page foreword from Bernardine Evaristo, co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize.




Flat hand signed by the author at the half-title page. 


Internally in fine condition, appears to be a carefully read example, no ownership inscriptions.  Externally in near fine to fine condition, tightly and squarely bound, sharp corners, light storage wear at spine ends and gutter ends, tiny bump at rear upper edge.  Dustjacket in near fine to fine condition, light storage wear at spine ends per wear to book, minor edge wear in places.






'The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel.  It seduces with its literary flair, surprises with its breath-taking plot twists, delights with its psychological insights, and challenges us to consider the corrupting consequences of racism on different communities and individual lives.  I absolutely loved this book '  Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019





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' story lines 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.







'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 '  New York Times












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