![]() ![]() She cuts off all ties to her old life and family, while Desiree ends up leaving her abusive husband, and takes their daughter back to her home town. She gets involved with her boss and ultimately marries him and has a daughter. Stella disappears one day, leaving Desiree with nothing but a note, having found an office job where they think she’s white. Stella became white and Desiree married the darkest man she could find.” But “…after a year, the twins scattered, their lives splitting as evenly as their shared egg. The girls disappear from town when they’re 16, and make their escape to New Orleans to start their new lives. “A town that, like any other, was more idea than place…A town for men like him, who would never be accepted as white but refused to be treated like Negroes.” They both grew up in the tiny Louisiana town of Mallard. While physically identical, twin sisters, Desiree and Stella Vignes couldn’t have been more different. What can I say, I loved this so much I had to also buy myself a hard copy annnd the audiobook. Thank you to Riverhead Books for gifting me a digital review copy of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett. ![]()
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