The Vanishing Half
2 journalers for this copy...
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?
This was such a thought provoking book, one of the best books I've read in a long time! A captivating story about race and gender as they are experienced, about love, about life, about truth and lies...
This book travels to Bjorg! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did :)
Journal Entry 4 by Bjorg at Reykjavík, Reykjavík (Höfuðborgar svæðið) Iceland on Friday, July 14, 2023
Arrived today, thanks so much :)