6/1/2023 0 Comments The vanishing half goodreads![]() Consequently, the first twin gives birth to a dark-skinned girl and the second to a girl with blond hair and violet eyes. The twins marry men with polar opposite looks: the first dark-skinned and the second whiter than white. ![]() This causes the twins to lead two completely different lives: one black, one white. Although everyone in the town is Black, the majority of the residents are extremely light-skinned, thus creating a strange in between society in a time where the Jim Crow binaries rule over all.ĭespite the twins’ similarities, they have a profound difference: one chooses to embrace her Black identity, while the other chooses to outrun it. The twins grow up in Mallard a town fraught with colorism and too small to even be marked on a map. The novel The Vanishing Half follows the lives of two white passing identical twins and their far from identical daughters during the mid to late 20th century America. ![]() Award(s) won: Goodreads Choice Award (HF) ![]()
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