#thelitbit // The Vanishing Half

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Didn’t leave here for hours - hooked from beginning to end. 

Twin sisters inseparable since birth then one chooses to live in a different world - one now white and one still Black. The secrets and moments of reckoning that pass and what happens when their daughters’ lives intersect. 

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Noteworthy excerpts:

"The hardest part about becoming someone else was deciding to. The rest was only logistics."

"‘Well, maybe that’s your problem,’ Kennedy said. ‘You tell yourself no before anyone even says it to you.’"

"You didn’t just find a self out there waiting—you had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to be."

“Remaining what you were or becoming something new, it was all a choice, any way you looked at it.”

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