Brit Bennett on her novel's exploration of race and

Brit Bennett on her novel's exploration of race and transformation

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Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half explores race and identity through a pair of twins whose lives diverge. She speaks to Kate Evans about the role of lynching in the narrative, about transformation, and about the importance of telling this a story such as this.

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