![]() ![]() It was very specific and very disturbing.”īennett, who joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club Aug. “It stuck with me, I think, because it was a very different way to think about skin color and an attempt to genetically engineer your population. ![]() “So I’d never imagined a town like this,” she says. Her mother was born and raised in rural Louisiana in a small town named Palmetto, while Bennett grew up in Oceanside in San Diego County. That single sentence became the foundation for Bennett’s new book, “The Vanishing Half,” a novel that has topped bestseller lists this summer and spurred a Hollywood bidding war. Next, twin sisters and a Louisiana landscape sprouted, then filled in. ![]() “And I was like: ‘Wait! Go back to that.’”Ĭaptivated, Bennett pulled out her phone and jotted down one sentence. “She brought it up the way parents often do, like it’s something everybody knew … that there were towns where people would intermarry so that their children would get lighter with each generation,” Bennett recalls. There was one story too good to let slip by. Novelist Brit Bennett remembers the day her mother began reeling off stories from her Southern past. ![]()
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