Bøker av Brit Bennett

'The Vanishing Half is an utterly mesmerising novel. It seduces with its literary flair, surprises with its breath-taking plot twists, delights with its psychological insights, and challenges us to consider the corrupting consequences of racism on different communities and individual lives. I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019The 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: 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 many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' story lines intersect?Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.Praise for Brit Bennett: 'A writer to watch' Washington Post 'Bennett allows her characters to follow their worst impulses, and she handles provocative issues with intelligence, empathy and dark humour' New York Times 'A beautifully written, sad and lingering book' Guardian on The Mothers

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most.All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season. It's the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully manoeuvre and dogged by the constant, nagging question: what if they had chosen differently? In entrancing, lyrical prose, THE MOTHERS asks whether a 'what if' can be more powerful than an experience itself.

Tvillingsøstrene Stella og Desiree vokser opp i sørstatene på sekstitallet, i en liten by befolket av svarte med lys hud. De to jentene er uatskillelige, og da faren deres blir myrdet, rømmer de hjemmefra sammen. Men en dag er Stella borte. Hun har oppdaget at hun kan passere som hvit, og har dratt til California for å starte et nytt liv, med en hvit mann, en ny identitet, uten noen bånd til fortiden. Desiree sørger over søsterens sporløse forsvinning og slutter aldri å lete etter henne. De to søstrene får hver sin datter, en hvit og en svart, som ikke vil la fortidens hemmeligheter ligge. Slik fortsetter skjebnene til Stella og Desiree å flettes sammen, på godt og vondt. Det som forsvinner er en spennende historie om familie, identitet og tilhørighet. Klokt og følsomt skildrer Brit Bennett hvordan bakgrunnen vår er med oss uansett hvor vi er og hvilke valg vi tar. Men først og fremst er dette en fascinerende fortelling om søstre, mødre og døtre - om hvor sterke båndene er, selv på sitt svakeste.