The Vanishing Half : A Novel Condition:Like New the railyards and the diners--and

the railyards and the diners--and

her book offers a moving and provocative portrait of the way we live now

Author: Aaris Sherin

he’ll find out why

The Vanishing Half : A Novel Condition:Like New the railyards and the diners--andThe 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. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other passes for white, and her white