About the Book: The Vanishing Half: Longlisted for the Womens Prize 2021
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, its not
just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, its everything:
their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one
sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to
escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing
of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as