However, Stella disappears shortly thereafter only to be living her life in secret as a white woman. In 1954, at the age of 16, the twins run away to New Orleans. Desiree and Stella are light-skinned black sisters who were raised in the fictional town of Mallard, Louisiana and witnessed the lynching of their father in the 1940s. The novel is a multi-generational family saga set between the 1940s to the 1990s and centers on identical twin sisters Desiree and Estelle "Stella" Vignes and their daughters Jude and Kennedy. The Vanishing Half garnered acclaim from book critics, and Emily Temple of Literary Hub noted that in 2020 the book most frequently listed among the year's best, making 25 lists. HBO acquired the rights to develop a limited series with Bennett as executive producer. The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list. It is her second novel and was published by Riverhead Books in 2020. The Vanishing Half is a historical fiction novel by American author Brit Bennett.
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