Virtual, Creecy Book Club, "The Vanishing Half."

Creecy Book Discussion of The Vanishing Half on Zoom. Please email adultreference@southfieldlibrary.org for meeting information.

Novel by Britt Bennett is about choices and circumstance. It tells the story of twin girls growing up in the segregated South. They live in a town that is color struck inhabited by light skinned black people. Both sisters, in their own way, rebel against the strictures of the town They run away as teenagers and wind up rebelling in very different fashions. One sister marries an extremely dark skinned man and has a dark skinned daughter. The other sister passes for white and lives a privileged life. Their stories...and the backstories of their forebears is told over a span of almost forty years, beginning in the 1950s.