![]() ![]() ![]() Desiree Vignes and her twin sister, Stella, left their hometown of Mallard, Louisiana – a fictional town so small that it will disappear from the map in the course of the story – when they were 16. ![]() ‘I wanted to write a book that was not just about Black pain,’ Bennett continued, ‘but also about Black love.’ Her novel, which has been at the top of the New York Times bestseller list since it came out, six weeks ago as I write, isn’t straightforwardly escapist, but reading it during lockdown in my childhood garden, stomach against the warm grass and heels crossed in the air, I turned page after page until they seemed to turn themselves. The Vanishing Half came out a week after George Floyd was choked to death on a Minneapolis sidewalk the novel itself begins weeks after Martin Luther King was assassinated in April 1968, and concerns twin girls who saw their own father lynched. ‘I hope the book gives you a sense of joy, something to immerse yourself in that is not the horrific news that we’ve been experiencing constantly and relentlessly since March,’ Brit Bennett said of her new novel. ![]()
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