Brit Bennett

En la conservadora comunidad de Oceandrive hay un grupo de mujeres que se reúnen en torno a la iglesia de Upper Room a contar los chismes del pueblo: tres jóvenes, Nadia, Luke y Aubrey se enredan en un triangulo amoroso.Narrada a multiples voces y con una fascinante prosa lirica, la historia es una mezcla de secretos, amistad, traicion y muerte que marca el paso de la adolescencia a la adultez, con el sinsabor de una pregunta molesta: ¿y si hubiera tomado otra decision?

In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a what if can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennetts mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret.All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if wed taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season.It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mothers recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastors son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; its not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romanceand the subsequent cover-upwill have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a what if can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.

A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most.Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett''s mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret."All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we''d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season."It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother''s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor''s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it''s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance--and the subsequent cover-up--will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke, and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently? The possibilities of the road not taken are a relentless haunt.In entrancing, lyrical prose, The Mothers asks whether a "what if" can be more powerful than an experience itself. If, as time passes, we must always live in servitude to the decisions of our younger selves, to the communities that have parented us, and to the decisions we make that shape our lives forever.

Nadia, 17 ans, tombe enceinte de Luke, son amour caché, et avorte en secret car cet acte est inconcevable dans sa communauté noire et religieuse de Californie. Elle quitte Luke et Aubrey, sa meilleure amie, pour étudier dans une grande université où elle découvre l'élite et son racisme latent. Prix Lire 2017 du meilleur premier roman étranger. Premier roman.

A Mallard, en Louisiane, les habitants noirs s'efforcent depuis un siécle d'éclaircir leur couleur de peau par des mariages métissés. Aprés avoir fugué avec sa soeur jumelle á l'¢ge de 14 ans, une je

Mallard, Louisiana, e il paese dove si e riunita una comunita di neri dalla pelle chiara, "che non sarebbero mai stati accettati come bianchi ma rifiutavano di farsi trattare come neri". In un posto cosi non passa inosservato il ritorno di Desiree Vignes e della piccola June, la sua bimba, che ha la pelle nerissima. Anni prima Desiree era fuggita da Mallard e da un terribile ricordo, la morte del padre massacrato da un gruppo di bianchi: ma ora per lei il paese rappresenta la salvezza, il luogo invisibile in cui sottrarsi a un marito violento. Desiree, pero, non era fuggita da sola ma insieme a Stella, l'inseparabile gemella identica a lei. Non sapevano ancora, le due sorelle, che a New Orleans la sorte le avrebbe divise e Stella sarebbe a sua volta scomparsa. Passano gli anni, June cresce e giunge anche per lei il momento di lasciare Mallard. In California, dove e arrivata per studiare medicina, incontra un ragazzo che una volta si chiamava Therese e una giovane attrice dagli occhi viola: grazie a loro scoprira il segreto di Stella e, forse, potra ricucire due destini separati dal razzismo e da un sogno di liberta. Quanto siamo liberi di diventare cio che davvero siamo rispetto al destino che altri - la famiglia, la comunita - hanno scelto per noi? Brit Bennett mette in scena l'avventura di chi abbraccia le proprie radici e di chi transita verso nuove identita, razziali e di genere, e con questo romanzo ci offre una grande occasione per interrogarci sul mondo che vogliamo, per aprire gli occhi sullo spirito dei tempi.

Dialogue's super lead for 2020. From the author of the New York Times bestseller THE MOTHERS, a powerful new novel about the parallel lives of estranged twin sisters who choose to live in two very different worlds - one black and one white.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 her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' story lines intersect?Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, THE VANISHING HALF considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick

The Mothers has stayed with me since I first read it, the words and the intimacy of the prose seeping into my pores Roxanne Gay Wonderful - warm and tender and necessary Yaa Gyasi

Um dos 10 melhores livros do ano. The New York TimesUma saga familiar enfeitiçante, de uma das grandes novas vozes da literatura americana, herdeira de James Baldwin e Toni Morrison.Recomendado pelo Plano Nacional de LeituraPlano Nacional de LeituraLiteratura - Maiores de 18 anosGeraço apos geraço, a comunidade negra de Mallard, no Estado sulista de Luisiana, esforça-se por aclarar o tom da sua pele, favorecendo os casamentos mistos. Desiree e Stella so disso um bom exemplo, com a sua pele "cor de areia humida", olhos castanho-avel e cabelo ondulado. Mas a aparencia no basta para as livrar do estigma, e acabam por assistir a morte violenta do pai, a humilhaço da me depois disso.Aos dezasseis anos, escolhem fugir juntas da terra sufocante. Pretendem escapar ao seu sangue e libertar o seu futuro. Mas a fuga para Nova Orlees acaba por ditar o afastamento das irms.Catorze anos mais tarde, Desiree volta a casa materna, arrastando pelas ruas poeirentas da terra uma filha de pele "negra como o alcatro", que atrai todos os olhares do lugarejo retrogrado. Stella, por seu lado, tem a vida construida numa mentira: vive na California, faz-se passar por branca, e o marido nada sabe do seu passado.Apesar de tantos quilometros e tantas mentiras a separa-las, os destinos das gemeas esto inevitavelmente entrelaçados. E voltaro a cruzar-se, porque e impossivel renegar a metade que nos pertence.Na saga desta familia, Brit Bennett cria uma historia de apelo universal e intemporal. No se detendo no inevitavel tema central da raça e da identidade, A outra metade reflecte sobre o peso do passado no presente, pondera as consequencias e os limites da reinvenço pessoal e oferece uma meditaço poderosa sobre a familia e a liberdade inpidual.Os elogios da critica:A partir de uma saga familiar, Bennett traça um retrato complexo da individualidade no imenso colectivo americano, inscrevendo-se numa longa tradiço, a da narrativa de passagem, onde alem da raça e da identidade entram temas como a fuga, a reinvenço, o corpo enquanto representaço, as possibilidades e as impossibilidades que se apresentam numa vida que so se vive uma vez.Isabel Lucas, PublicoUma historia intemporal sobre o que significa simplesmente crescer, definir-se e reinventar-se, para negociar um lugar no mundo. E um romance bem conseguido e comovente, pertinente em qualquer epoca. No momento actual, e pungente, orientando a narrativa para questes como quem somos e quem queremos ser.Entertainment WeeklyO magnifico segundo romance de Bennett - uma reflexo ambiciosa sobre a raça e a identidade - sonda os destinos divergentes de duas gemeas, nascidas no Sul racista, depois de uma delas decidir fazer-se passar por branca. Bennett consegue equilibrar as exigencias literarias de uma caracterizaço dinamica com as realidades historicas e sociais do tema em questo.The New York TimesReinventar-se ou desaparecer so duas faces da mesma moeda. Bennett convida-nos a considerar o significado da autenticidade quando enfrentamos a discriminaço por raça, cor de pele, genero ou orientaço sexual. Que preço pagamos por sermos como somos? Quantos de nos decidimos fugir ao que esperam de nos? E o que acontece ao outro lado da equaço, a parte que deixamos para tras? A outra metade explora todas estas questes numa sofisticada historia de amor, sobrevivencia e realizaço.The ...

O romance de estreia de Brit Bennett, autora do fenomenal A outra metade e herdeira da tradição literária norte-americana firmada por James Baldwin, Toni Morrison e Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.Plano Nac

Nº1 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LISTNominada alNational BookAward 2020 y alWomen’sPrizeforFiction 2021Nº1 de laIndieNextListEntre los mejores libros del 2020 segúnThe New York Times, The Washington

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019'Epic' Kiley Reid, O, The Oprah Magazine 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 her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' story lines intersect?Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

Nº1 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST Nominada al National Book Award 2020 y al Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 Nº1 de la Indie Next List Entre los mejores libros del 2020 según The New York Times,

L?Stella i la Desiree són bessones idèntiques, tenen setze anys i ganes de deixar Mallard enrere, una ciutat conservadora de Louisiana. Després de fugir juntes cap a Nova Orleans, els seus camins se

Nº1 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LISTNominada alNational BookAward 2020 y alWomensPrizeforFiction 2021Nº1 de laIndieNextListEntre los mejores libros del 2020 segúnThe New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR,People, Time MagazineyVanityFairUnareflexion AMBICIOSAsobre la RAZA y la IDENTIDAD.The New York TimesGeneracion tras generacion, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desiree y Stella Vignes, con su color niveo, 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 tambien podrian escapar de su sangre. Años despues y ante la mirada atonita de todos, Desiree regresa acompañada de una niña negra como el carbon. Hace tiempo que no sabe nada de Stella, despues de que decidiera desaparecer y renunciar definitivamente a sus origenes para vivir otra vida como mujer de raza blanca.Aclamada como la digna heredera de Toni Morrison y James Baldwin, Brit Bennett es una de las grandes revelaciones de la literatura afroamericana de los ultimos tiempos.Lacritica hadicho:Una novela de una inmensa, brillante y poderosa inteligencia.Deborah LevyUna historia atemporal sobre lo que significa simplemente crecer, definirse y reinventarse, para negociar un lugar en el mundo. Tambien es una profunda historia norteamericana, comprometida con el pasado y el presente racista de un pais de una manera rigurosa. Es una lograda y conmovedora novela valida en cualquier epoca. En el momento actual, es punzante, dirigiendo sutilmente el relato hacia cuestiones sobre quienes somos y quienes queremos ser.Entertainment WeeklyEl tono y el estilo de Bennett recuerdan a James Baldwin y a Jacqueline Woodson, pero especialmente tiene reminiscencias del debut de Toni Morrison en 1970, Ojos azules.The Wall Street JournalUna saga familiar intergeneracional que aborda temas peliagudos sobre la identidad por raza y la intolerancia, y expresa los efectos corrosivos que provocan el secretismo y las imposturas. [...] al igual que Las madres, esta novela te mantendra atado a sus paginas queriendo averiguar como sigue.NPRLa magnifica segunda novela de Bennett -una reflexion ambiciosa sobre la raza y la identidad- indaga en las suertes divergentes de dos gemelas, nacidas en el Sur de Jim Crow, despues de que una de ellas decida hacerse pasar por blanca. Bennett logra equilibrar las exigencias literarias de una caracterizacion dinamica con las realidades historicas y sociales del tema en cuestion.The New York TimesReinventarse o desaparecer son dos caras de la misma moneda. Bennett nos invita a considerar el significado de autenticidad cuando nos enfrentamos con la discriminacion por raza, color de piel , sexo u orientacion sexual. ¿Que precio pagamos por ser nosotros mismos? ¿Cuantos de nosotros decidimos escapar de lo que se espera de nosotros? ¿Y que ocurre al otrolado de la ec...