Brit Bennett writes literary fiction about race, identity, family and the consequences of choices that divide people from the communities that formed them. The Mothers follows Nadia Turner, Aubrey Evans and Luke Sheppard in a Black church community in Southern California, with a collective chorus of older women commenting on secrets, grief and relationships around them. The Vanishing Half follows twin sisters from a Louisiana town where light skin is prized; one later lives as a Black woman while the other passes as white, and the novel traces how that split affects their daughters. Bennett’s prose is clear, character-led and interested in social structures without turning the novels into simple arguments. Her work sits within African American literary fiction, family saga and identity fiction. The Vanishing Half is the broader multi-generational entry. Read more Less
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