I will also add this story has a transgender character we meet around halfway through, and he is one of my favorites. I can’t remember the last time a book (audiobook) sucked me in so completely. This story truly transported me to Louisiana and Los Angles, the locations of where the majority of this story takes place. There is such great characterization of everyone! I love seeing in the minds of all the characters in this book.
We also see the lives of their daughters, cousins who never knew each other until their worlds also collide. They grow up together, but they end up living very different lives. When the twins run away from home, a town that prides itself on its light skinned Black people, at first they live and work together, but eventually Stella finds she can pass as a white person and does just that – nobody the wiser of her past. This is a story of twin girls – both Black, but light skinned. It’s both fascinating and horrifying to know how Black people were treated in our grandparents, our parents, and even our own lifetimes. There are no themes in here unsuitable for a “young adult” though, and I would recommend this to anyone in their teens or older.Īt its core, this is a story about race and how America treated Black people from the 1950’s – the early 1990’s (and lets be honest here – present time). This is not young adult, as we usually review on this blog, but rather historical fiction. It’s quiet at first and subtle, but it builds layer upon layer until you’re just in awe of how the pieces of this puzzle come together. I love the way The Vanishing Half is told.
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