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Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller, and her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
Brit Bennett is an American writer based in Los Angeles. Her debut novel The Mothers (2016) was a New York Times best-seller. Her second novel, The Vanishing Half (2020), was also a New York Times best-seller, and was chosen as a Good Morning America Book Club selection.
Jun 5, 2020 · Brit Bennett's latest novel is set in the late 1960s and '70s and — in the five years she was working on it — she never anticipated that when it came out it would be framed as "timely."...
- Mary Louise Kelly
“Brit Bennett has written the novel of the summer—if not the year—with The Vanishing Half, her dazzling American tale about race, family, and sisterhood.” Interview Magazine
From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical.
Nov 13, 2020 · Brit Bennett on race, identity and the re-invention of self in her bestselling novel, The Vanishing Half. The American author spoke with Eleanor Wachtel about writing a novel where the issues...
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Sep 2, 2020 · Last week, New York Times bestselling author Brit Bennett graced the Vox Book Club with a visit to discuss her latest novel, The Vanishing Half. I chatted with Bennett about passing stories,...