Brit Bennett Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/brit-bennett/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 08 Jun 2020 17:52:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Brit Bennett Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/brit-bennett/ 32 32 38398750 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/06/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2020 04:49:12 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14438 Where to begin with Brit Bennett’s new novel The Vanishing Half? Ostensibly it’s the story of identical twins Stella and Desiree who grow up in Mallard, a small, poor community in the Deep South, comprised solely of light-skinned black people. But given what’s happening in America right now reviewing a book about race feels fraught, […]

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