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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.

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	The Vanishing Half 4.26 avg rating — 320,016 ratings — published 2020 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mothers 3.88 avg rating — 78,026 ratings — published 2016 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butterball 3.56 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Je ne sais pas quoi faire des gentils blancs 4.13 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Half & The Mothers By Brit Bennett 2 Books Collection Set by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), The Vanishing Half By Brit Bennett (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 47 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Vanishing Half really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nadia: Excerpted from The Mothers by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon (Editor), Ayelet Waldman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ann Patchett 4.23 avg rating — 940 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism by June Eric-Udorie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Soofiya Andry (Contributor), Gabrielle Bellot (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mothers Before: Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them by Edan Lepucki (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Molly Wizenberg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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