![]() Is she playing it safe the second time around? In fact, she’s only raising the stakes, gambling with an allegory that could be taken for a gimmick she uses twin sisters as symbols of divergent paths for black women. ![]() In her new novel, “ The Vanishing Half,” Bennett sticks to conventional narrative. The author was 26 when it was published in 2016. And the stakes are high.īrit Bennett’s “ The Mothers” was definitely one of those heralded debuts, an accessible coming-of-age story that was sneakily experimental - framing the troubles of a teenage girl in Oceanside with a chatty, confiding and ultimately controlling chorus of church ladies. ![]() Let’s face it, for a novelist talented and fortunate enough to have published a debut that earned any attention at all - never mind general acclaim - the follow-up is a test. ![]()
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