From WSJbooks: Brit Bennett’s novel 'The Vanishing Half' follows light-skinned twin sisters on opposite sides of the racial divide—one accepting a life of hardship, the other rising into privilege by perpetuating a lie. Sam_Sacks reviews.
James Weldon Johnson ended his 1912 novel “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man” with the biblical regret, “I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage,” an expression of the mixed-race narrator’s knowledge that by passing as a white man he has chosen ease and comfort over the deeper experience
of a shared struggle. Over a century separates Johnson’s book from Brit Bennett’s “The Vanishing Half” , yet the sentiment is unchanged. Ms. Bennett’s novel traces the story of light-skinned black twin sisters who occupy opposite sides of the racial divide—one accepting a life of hardship and dignity,...
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