Program Description
Event Details
Please join KPBS and our partners for a special live event with Brit Bennett, author of our 2022 One Book, One San Diego adult selection, "The Vanishing Half." A #1 New York Times Bestseller, "The Vanishing Half" is a historical fiction novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family—from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s—Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.
THIS EVENT IS IN-PERSON AND FREE.
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Event Schedule:
Author Talk: 6:30-8pm
Book Signing*: 8-8:30pm
Check-in begins at 6pm and the program will begin promptly at 6:30pm. The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube and Facebook. Links will be provided in your confirmation email and event reminders. No other registration is required. Complimentary parking will be available.
One Book, One San Diego is a partnership, led by KPBS, with the San Diego Public Library, the San Diego County Library, San Diego State University, One Book Sin Fronteras and more than 30 others. For more information about One Book, One San Diego, please visit: kpbs.org/onebook
"The Vanishing Half" may be purchased at the event or online from the Library Shop. Proceeds support the entire San Diego Public Library System. Or check out "The Vanishing Half" for free through the San Diego County Library or the San Diego Public eLibrary.
ADA accommodations are available. If you require accommodations, please email jmdean@kpbs.org.
*Book signing will be first come, first served as time allows.
One Book One San Diego is funded by the Linden Root Dickinson Foundation, the Dr. Seuss Fund at the San Diego Foundation, the Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation, the Payne Family Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, Francis Parker School, the City of San Diego, Lloyd Pest Control, and Compass Charter Schools.