The Vanishing Half

The Vanishing Half

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021

Hardback (11 Jun 2020)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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. Ten 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' story lines intersect?

Book information

ISBN: 9780349701462
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Dialogue Books
Pub date:
Edition: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021
DEWEY: 813.6
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 343
Weight: 594g
Height: 164mm
Width: 240mm
Spine width: 34mm