Join us on Wednesday, February 3 at 7pm EST as we continue our 2021 virtual season with Brit Bennett!

Brit Bennett is the author of New York Times bestseller, The Mothers, and most recently, the instant #1 New York Times bestseller, The Vanishing Half, her second novel.  Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction. In 2014, she received the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.

Brit will be in conversation with Ariel Felton.

THE VANISHING HALF —a novel that is both an engrossing page-turner about family, love and betrayal and a powerful exploration of race and identity in America.

Weaving together multiple strands and generations from Louisiana to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, THE VANISHING HALF follows twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.  Intimate and epic in scope, THE VANISHING HALF is an immersive, riveting story that confronts America’s history of passing and examines complex issues around race and gender in the way that only Brit Bennett can—with profound empathy, nuance and intelligence.  Like in The Mothers, Bennett again deepens “our appreciation of the black experience” (O, The Oprah Magazine) through a novel that also feels “poignantly universal” (Entertainment Weekly) in its exploration of one’s relationship to the past—how it shapes us, how we cling to it and how we run away from it.

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Savannah Book Festival presents Brit Bennett