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?
Keisha There was rumored to be such a town, albeit small, in Long Island, New York
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by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author)
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