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In Mallard, you grew up hearing stories about folks who’d pretended to be white.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
She knew his type—painfully handsome—and it wasn’t the type to love a girl like Jude. Sure, she was striking in her own way, but a pretty boy like him would never fall for a girl who was difficultly beautiful.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
In the spring, before I began teaching and lost the capacity to read anything more robust than a play (no offense to plays), I read Isabel Waidner’s second novel, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility , whose eponymous protagonist has just won a prestigious literary prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. And yet the trophy itself eludes him: neon... See more
The Paris Review • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
She just left one morning. Didn’t even leave a forwarding address. There’s still boxes of her things and she won’t even tell me where to send them.” He seemed more inconvenienced by the junk he was storing than the fact that Kennedy had abandoned him.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Memory works that way—like seeing forward and backward at the same time.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Leaving was simple. Staying was the part she’d never quite mastered.