Finding it easy to fool people, she decides to keep her secret, skip town with a white boyfriend, abruptly leaving Desiree behind, and start a new life as a white woman. They moved to New Orleans to make a fresh start, and when Stella is mistaken as white while interviewing for a job, she decides to keep quiet and not reveal her true identity as a black woman. Once they were sixteen, their mother pulled them out of school in order to work, and the teenage girls, wanting better for themselves, ran away together. When they were younger, the girls lost their father to horrible violence that they witnessed. The Vignes sisters, Stella and Desiree, lived with their mother in Mallard, Louisiana, a small southern town made up of light skinned people of color, and were joined at the hip. The Vanishing Half is the story of African American identical twins in the 1950s who become separated when one makes a whimsical choice that drastically impacts their lives and the lives of their family, community and generations to come. In an outstanding second novel, author Brit Bennett tackles the topic of identity, showing that who we are on the outside is only a part of us.
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