It was a book about a family across different generations and Karen Kilgariff enjoyed it, specifically learning that it was about the mother-sister relationship.
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. I finished and I'd fucking highly recommend it.
— Episode: 254 - Little Bandit & Pirate George
Episode: 254 - Little Bandit & Pirate George
It was a book about a family across different generations and Karen Kilgariff enjoyed it, specifically learning that it was about the mother-sister relationship.
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. I finished and I'd fucking highly recommend it.
But I didn't realize it was really like mother sister relationships.
Episode: 252 - The Great La-Z-Boy Uprising: Advice Q&A
It was described as a moving generational story following twin sisters, one of whom disappears, with a focus on their family's experiences and the daughter's journey to L.A. as a track star.
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It's so good. It's like, you know, the generational stories of each person in that family and what happened to them and how they got there. But essentially, it's the story revolves around twin sisters and one of them vanishes.
And the search for her, but the twin who stayed, like her daughter and her husband and what happens to her life and the daughter goes to L.A. and becomes a track star. But it's heartfelt and beautiful and really well written. And it's just great.
This book was considered absolutely riveting and fantastic, even better than the author's debut novel.
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This is Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half which is about two sisters who grow up in a black community where everyone can basically pass for white and eventually one of the sisters does pass for white...
— Episode: All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy
Episode: All I Want For Christmas Is Democracy
This book was considered absolutely riveting and fantastic, even better than the author's debut novel.
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This is Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half which is about two sisters who grow up in a black community where everyone can basically pass for white and eventually one of the sisters does pass for white and it's about how this plays out over a successive generation.
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