But after growing up together in a small, Southern Black community and running away at age 16, it’s not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it’s everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. For this moment, it’s piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be.” ( Entertainment Weekly )įrom The New York Times best-selling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one Black and one White. For any era, it’s an accomplished, affecting novel. “ A story of absolute, universal timelessness…. “Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it’s especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye.” ( Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal ) Named a Best Book of 2020 by The New York Times * The Washington Post * NPR * People * Time Magazine * Vanity Fair * Glamour One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the Year
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