At a campus event, Bennett will discuss her New York Times-bestselling novel The Vanishing Half with Occidental Writer-in-Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor of English聽Chekwube O. Danladi.
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Britt Bennett's has been selected as this year鈥檚 Community Book. Published in 2020, this stunning novel centers on twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family鈥攆rom the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s鈥擝ennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing.听Looking well beyond issues of race,聽The Vanishing Half聽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.
, who was born and raised in Southern California, earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan. Her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller, and her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.
The Community Book Program promotes the mission of the College by empowering students, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and other members of the broader 香港六合彩开奖结果2023 community to experience the joy of reading and learning together.
The College will purchase an e-book for each student wishing to participate in the Community Book Program. Email communitybook@oxy.edu for more information.
