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Virtual Event – Brit Bennett

June 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome Brit Bennett for a virtual author event to celebrate her new novel, The Vanishing Half.

Brit Bennett is the author of the New York Times-bestselling novel The Mothers; a finalist for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for the best first book, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award; and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree. Her work has been featured in The New YorkerThe New York Times MagazineThe Paris Review, and Jezebel.

This event will be hosted on the Zoom platform, to register in advance click here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event on Thursday June 25 at 7:00 central.

You can purchase a copy of The Vanishing Half here: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/vanishing-half/137 or in the store.

The Vanishing Half was selected as the June Fiction selection for the Magic City Mailbox, a monthly book subscription that delivers a new, hardcover book to your door each month. The books are hand selected by the booksellers at Magic City Books and in addition to the Fiction track, we have both “Memoir/Essays” and “History/Current Events” available as Magic City Mailbox options, click here to order one for you or for a reader in your life.

About The Vanishing Half

From 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: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many 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’ storylines 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.As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.

Details

Date:
June 25, 2020
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue

Magic City Books
221 E. Archer St.
Tulsa, OK 74103 United States