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Brit Bennett

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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.

Average rating: 4.13 · 797,224 ratings · 65,622 reviews · 18 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Vanishing Half

4.17 avg rating — 668,265 ratings — published 2020 — 40 editions
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The Mothers: A Novel

3.90 avg rating — 108,942 ratings — published 2016 — 53 editions
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Some People Have Real Problems

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Meet Claudie

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Je ne sais pas quoi faire d...

4.17 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions
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Butterball

3.58 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 2014
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“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“She hadn't realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.”
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

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