Books by 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

En international bestseller om at finde sin vej i verden i jagten på det gode liv, ægte kærlighed og en identitet, man selv har valgt. Det der skiller os er den amerikanske forfatter Brit Bennetts rørende page-turner om familierelationer, kærlighed og raceforskel. Samtidig er den et fremragende portræt af det amerikanske samfund fra 1950’erne til 1990’erne – og en roman, der med dyb empati udforsker vores forhold til fortiden, hvordan den former os, hvordan vi holder fast i den, og hvordan vi forsøger at undslippe den.De enæggede tvillinger Stella og Desiree Vignes vokser op i en lille sydstatsflække befolket af sorte, der i 1950’ernes USA er født til et liv uden de hvides privilegier. De to piger er uadskillelige som børn og stikker som 16-årige af sammen fra byen og deres mor i troen på et bedre liv. Men skæbnen og deres livsvalg skiller dem ad, og tvillingerne ender med at leve to meget forskellige liv langt fra hinanden.Desiree vender efter mange år tilbage til barndomsbyen sammen med sin datter til et liv som sort. Stella derimod udnytter, at hun grundet sin lyse hud kan gå for at være hvid og bosætter sig i Californien, hvor hun lever et liv som velhavende husmor med en mand og en datter, der ikke kender hendes ophav.Selv adskilt af mange kilometer og løgne er tvillingerne og senere deres døtres skæbner uløseligt forbundet.Det der skiller os er en medfølende og begavet roman, der undersøger driften mod et bedre liv og den pris, vi er villige til at betale for at leve som en anden.Romanen er Brit Bennetts store gennembrud. Den gik direkte ind som #1 på New York Times’ bestsellerliste, forlag i over 30 lande har købt bogen, ligesom HBO har sikret sig filmrettighederne.   ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST

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.

I Oceanside, Californien sørger Nadia over sin mor, der netop har begået selvmord. Hun former et tæt venskab med den moderløse Aubrey og har en kortvarig romance med den fire år ældre Luke. Da Nadia mange år senere vender hjem til Oceanside, rippes der op i gamle sår og den hemmelighed, hende og Luke deler. Alle tre plages af de valg, de tog den sommer, og af spørgsmålet: Hvad nu, hvis de havde handlet anderledes? Mødrene er en roman om ambitioner, venskab, kærlighed og om en stor hemmelighed i et lille samfund. ?Hvis du læser Mødrene, vil du lære en masse. Du vil lære, hvordan det er, når et moderformet fravær er centrum for ens liv, men også hvordan det føles, at have sin mors varme og dømmende ånde i nakken hvert sekund. Du vil lære, at mænd, selv når de gang på gang handler forkert, har følelser for fødte og ufødte børn. Du vil lære, at strenge og onde handlinger har rod i trist, tilegnet visdom. Og du vil lære at Brit Bennett er en forfatter, du skal holde øje med.? - Washington Post