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Tuesday Evening Book Club (IN PERSON & ON ZOOM)

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

This meeting will be held IN PERSON and ON ZOOM. Those unable to attend in person, can join us via Zoom simultaneously. Registration begins August 9. Click or see below for details.

[This book club meets every second Tuesday of the month at 7 pm]

Join us to discuss The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett:

"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins."

In order to participate, please click one of the REGISTER buttons above. 

Physical copies of the book will be available for participants to borrow at the Circulation Desk beginning August 10, 2022.

If you have any questions, please email: frances.brawner@westlakelibrary.org

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