Today, I had the true pleasure of talking with Brit Bennett about her new novel, The Vanishing Half. Dr. Sarah Moukhliss, a founding member of my online twin estrangement group, and I asked Brit ...

Brit Bennett's first novel, The Mothers, was the sort of smashingly successful debut that can make but also possibly break a young writer by raising expectations and pressure. Four years later, her ...

“The Vanishing Half,” a critically acclaimed novel about identity and race, is on track to become not just one of the bestselling books of the year, but a 352-page cultural phenomenon. Initial print ...

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HBO acquired the rights to this popular novel shortly after it published in 2020. Aziza Barnes will write and produce the upcoming adaptation of the story of identical twin sisters growing up in the ...