Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half - it received a lot of glowing reviews, and I enjoyed it for the most part, but felt the tone of it went a little weird and inconsistent in the last section, and the whole thing became a little unwieldy.
Ranging from 1968 to 1988, it tells of two lighter African American identical twin sisters who flee their black town in Louisiana in the 1950s, one of whom passes herself as white as they go their separate ways.
Similar concept to this year’s movie Passing (based on a book from the 1920s, but I’d never read it) but I found the characters far more interesting and fully fleshed out. I did enjoy it until, as said, it seemed to become a little scattered towards the end.
Ranging from 1968 to 1988, it tells of two lighter African American identical twin sisters who flee their black town in Louisiana in the 1950s, one of whom passes herself as white as they go their separate ways.
Similar concept to this year’s movie Passing (based on a book from the 1920s, but I’d never read it) but I found the characters far more interesting and fully fleshed out. I did enjoy it until, as said, it seemed to become a little scattered towards the end.