![]() The novel isn’t easy to summarize, and I feel this is due to all the complexities that come with the detailed plot, characters, and motifs. The family reconnects, though Stella returns to her life with Blake. Jude runs into Stella, and eventually, after Jude forms a friendship with Kennedy, Stella briefly returns to Mallard. Jude attends UCLA and meets her boyfriend, Reese. Stella poses as white and marries a white man named Blake, with whom she has a daughter, Kennedy. Desiree escapes her abusive marriage to Sam and returns to Mallard with Jude, who is bullied for her dark skin. Desiree marries Sam, a dark-skinned man, and has a daughter, Jude. The girls run away in their teens and eventually go their separate ways. Much to my surprise, I opened the book to find a story set in the 1940s and 80s that was filled with layers of thought-provoking themes of family, identity, race, colorism, and so many more.Ī quick (and hopefully unnecessary) summary of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett:ĭesiree and Stella are twin girls who grow up in the mid-twentieth century in the small town of Mallard, Louisiana. ![]() When she described The Vanishing Half to my advisory, I instinctively expected it to be set in the 21st century and to have a slow, mildly interesting plotline. Maliakel (English Department Chair) as an advisor, I heard about this year’s summer reading book earlier than others. ![]()
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