
The Vanishing Half / The Mothers
By Brit Bennett
2020
First Published
3.98
Average Rating
300
Number of Pages
Avg Rating
3.98
Number of Ratings
177
5 STARS
32%
4 STARS
42%
3 STARS
21%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
2%
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Author

Brit Bennett
Author · 9 books
Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.