My fingers are crossed that 2021 will be better. I’ve spent most of this year mentally and physically exhausted and I’m honestly just relieved to have made it to the end. Working longer, later, with fewer coworkers, and with the added stress of a pandemic (around idiots who don’t understand that MASKS SHOULD COVER YOUR NOSE) put a big strain on me. I was furloughed for just over a month and then brought back for more hours than I’ve ever worked before. I know I’m lucky to have a job since so many lost theirs this year, but it was tough. I’m in the minority in that I actually read far less this year than I have any other year in the near future. The Vanishing Half is a story about a family, but by telling the story of one individual family it also hits on some of humanity’s greatest truths and most shameful open secrets.įull review here Kindred by Octavia Butler I love the characters, the way that Bennett expertly moves them together and apart over the years is nothing short of masterful. It could easily stand with literary classics, and it is also extremely entertaining. Quick pitch: I will be shocked if The Vanishing Half is never assigned in schools, because it is a brilliant book. And then one day Desiree’s daughter Jude-so dark that even her Black friends and neighbors are shocked by the blue-black hue of her skin-and Stella’s daughter Kennedy-rich, spoiled, and blonde-happen across each other. Desiree returns to the hometown she wanted so badly to escape in order to get away from her abusive husband. Stella marries a rich white man and lives in fear that her white neighborhood will be overtaken by Black neighbors who will recognize her as one of them. Although the twins are identical, their lives could not resemble each other less. Feeling restricted by the small-town life, the girls run away to New Orleans, where Stella makes a bold choice with drastic repercussions for them both: she becomes white. What’s it about? Twins Stella and Desiree grew up in the 1950s in a town so small it doesn’t appear on the maps, and where their ancestors have been intentionally and generationally lightening their skin. Age group and genre: Adult historical fiction
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