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The 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...
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Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también podrían escapar de su sangre. Años después y ante...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, The vanishing half: "The 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...
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Bliźniaczki Stella i Desiree są identyczne we wszystkim. Do czasu. Kiedy mają 16 lat postanawiają uciec ze swojej małej, czarnej społeczności. Ucieczka zmienia wszystko: ich codzienność, ich życie rodzinne, ich tożsamość. Stella zrywa kontakt ze swoim poprzednim życiem (w tym z ukochaną siostrą) i nawet przed mężem udaje białą Amerykankę (pozwala jej na to jasny kolor skóry). Desiree wciąż mieszka ze swoją czarną córką...
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Book club discussion kit featuring The Vanishing Half: "The 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...
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