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SUMMARY:BookEnds Book Club
UID:68095
DTSTAMP:20260418T164100Z
DTSTART:20260217T213000Z
DTEND:20260217T223000Z
LOCATION:459 Valparaiso Pkwy, Valparaiso, FL 32580, United States
ROOM: BookEnds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us Tuesday, Feb 17th at 3:30 to discuss our book for this
  month; 'The Vanishing Half' by Brit Bennett.  Hard copy books 
 will be available for check out at the Valparaiso Library starting on Jan 
 22nd, and online at Readokaloosa.org ."The Vignes twin sisters will a
 lways be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern bla
 ck 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: t
 heir families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years late
 r, 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 h
 usband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles a
 nd 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 Ben
 nett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story a
 nd a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking wel
 l beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influenc
 e of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expecta
 tions, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which peopl
 e sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.&quo
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URL:https://okaloosa.librarycalendar.com/event/bookends-book-club-68095
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