The Vanishing Half: A Novel PH23-3

The Vanishing Half: A Novel PH23-3From The New York Times bestselling 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. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything:

with their mother and the Black Panthers

their country

Publisher: Penguin Classics (March 28

Rachel is a veteran of hospitals

Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep their family afloat after their father passed away

And now I feel like I can do anything

Paperback: 463 pages

Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior―such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce―no one

Publisher: Storey Publishing (December 2

to write her life story

" has been forced by loss of electrical power to flee his stronghold and is now on the road

Publisher: Gallery Books (August 27