Episode 14: In her explosive new novel, <em>The Vanishing Half</em>, in which everyone is struggling to escape their past, Brit Bennett explores issues of race, gender and class

14 July

Photo credit: Emma Trim

In The Vanishing Half, in which identical twins lead different lives as one passes herself off as white, Brit Bennett asks important questions about identity. If you can perform whiteness, what does it actually mean to be white?

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