![]() ![]() Near the beginning of the novel, when Desiree enlists a childhood sweetheart, Early, to find Stella, the story feels like it could go in the direction of a thriller like?Gone Girl. Years later, Jude and Stella's daughter, Kennedy, meet by chance. Stella passes for white and marries a successful businessman who knows nothing of her past, eventually relocating to Los Angeles. Desiree marries a dark-skinned black lawyer but leaves him and returns to Mallard with their daughter, Jude, who is also much darker than the town approves of. The twins run away to New Orleans as teenagers and eventually take radically different paths. Desiree and Stella are twins born in Mallard, LA, a tiny town populated by light-skinned African Americans. Is identity something we're born with, or something we choose? This is the overarching theme of Bennett's The Vanishing Half. Join us in-person in the Board Room or online via Zoom for a lively discussion of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. ![]()
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