Pam answers “I wondered if there were really any towns...”

Ginger asked this question about The Vanishing Half:

I wondered if there were really any towns like Mallard in the post-slavery South that we’re made up of light-skinned blacks. Did they exist?

Pam I just heard the author being interviewed and she said that the idea came from her mother who said that she had heard there was such a community in Lo…moreI just heard the author being interviewed and she said that the idea came from her mother who said that she had heard there was such a community in Louisiana. That was the springboard for the novel.(less)

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