The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel) -- Brit Bennett

<p><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER <p/>ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR<b><b><b><br><b><br>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES * THE WASHINGTON POST * </i>NPR * <i>PEOPLE * TIME MAGAZINE* VANITY FAIR * GLAMOUR </i></b></b></b></b> <p/>2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST</b></p><p><b>"Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, <i>The Bluest Eye."</i> --Kiley Reid, <i>Wall Street Journal</i> </b></p><p><i>"</i><b>A story of absolute, universal timelessness ...For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be...." <i>- Entertainment Weekly</i> <br></b><br> </p><p><b>From <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of <i>The Mothers</i>, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.</b></p>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, an