Webthese stories repeat some version of a generic arc: The “tragic mulatto,” often a woman, chooses to leave home and pass for white; In time, anguished by the betrayal of her. Born and raised in southern california, brit bennett earned her mfa in fiction at the university of michigan. Her debut novel the mothers was a new york times. Webit’s about a lot of things, but in terms of its most stripped down plot, it’s about a girl who has an abortion near the end of her high school years and in the ways that. Blindsided by this confrontation,. Webwe spoke with author brit bennett about all the books she read while writing the vanishing half, including your face in mine by jess row, the wedding by dorothy. Weband though she wanted nothing more than to set out alone, and die in peace, without putting her family and friends through the pain of watching her slow death from. Webin this paper, bennett’s character, stella sanders, is analyzed in terms of her desire and resulting attainment of a life in which she passes as white, and what this desire denotes. Webbennett joined the vox book club to discuss the book’s timeliness, passing novels, and why she doesn’t write identity as a problem to be solved.
