Author
Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett is the American novelist behind The Vanishing Half (2020) and The Mothers (2016). The Vanishing Half spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and was the basis for the planned HBO limited series. Bennett is one of the defining voices in contemporary literary fiction about American racial identity.
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Years active
2016-2020
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Our reviews of Brit Bennett's work
The Mothers
by Brit Bennett
The Mothers by Brit Bennett 2016 review. A seventeen-year-old in a Black Oceanside church community has a secret pregnancy with the pastor's son. Bennett's debut and the structural predecessor to The Vanishing Half.
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 2020 review. Identical twin sisters from a small light-skinned Black Louisiana town diverge in the 1960s: one returns with her daughter, the other passes for white in California. Bennett's second novel and one of the canonical 2020s American literary novels.
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The Mothers by Brit Bennett 2016 review. A seventeen-year-old in a Black Oceanside church community has a secret pregnancy with the pastor's son. Bennett's debut and the structural predecessor to The Vanishing Half.
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 2020 review. Identical twin sisters from a small light-skinned Black Louisiana town diverge in the 1960s: one returns with her daughter, the other passes for white in California. Bennett's second novel and one of the canonical 2020s American literary novels.