.britrbennett’s sweeping new novel The Vanishing Half is about family, race, and the history of passing in America. Out today, it tells the story of twin sisters who choose to live in two different worlds: one black, and one white. Read an excerpt here:
Photo: Millennium Images / Gallery Stock A notice was pinned to the front door of every house in the Palace Estates, calling for an emergency Homeowners Association Meeting. The Estates, the newest subdivision in Brentwood in 1968, had only called one emergency meeting before, when the treasurer was accused of embezzling dues, so that night, the neighbors gathered in the clubhouse, whispering hotly, expecting the hint of a scandal.
She was trembling, her light brown eyes flashing, and the neighbors, moved by her spontaneous passion, applauded. She never spoke up in their meetings and hadn’t even known that she would until she’d already clambered to her feet. For a second, she’d almost said nothing — she hated feeling everyone watch her, had wanted to run shrinking at her own wedding. But her shy, faltering voice only gripped the room further.
In the museum, she’d glided slowly through the rooms, studying the fuzzy Impressionists. She was listening distractedly as an elderly docent intoned to a circle of listless children, when she noticed a Negro security guard in the corner of the room staring. Then he’d winked, and horrified, she rushed past him, head down, barely breathing until she stepped back into the bright morning. She rode the bus back to Mallard, her face burning. Of course passing wasn’t that easy.
But she wouldn’t look directly at Stella the whole time, brushing past her to climb into the car, so Stella knew that she was lying. Still, Stella held out hope that her suspicions were wrong until Blake came home from racquetball, wiping his sweaty face with his T-shirt, and told her that the Association had rolled over.
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