Brit Bennett never anticipated that when her newest book, 'The Vanishing Half,' came out it would be framed as 'timely.' The story explores a set of African American twins in the Jim Crow era as they navigate not only society but defining themselves.
In that post-civil rights movement era, Stella is learning how to perform whiteness at a time in which whiteness itself is also changing. And the scripts that she has learned within her Jim Crow upbringing in Louisiana are not applicable to when she becomes this sort of wealthy white woman in California. And she has to perform whiteness in a different way.
Stories of passing are often these moralizing stories. And I didn't want to do that. I was not interested in punishing Stella, I was not interested in condemning her. To me, it was not interesting to think like: Is it good or bad to pass? I was really more interested in the implications of passing on this woman's life. You know, how she comes to think of herself, how this changes her relationships and her family, the choices that she's making, how they affect her marriage.
Elena Burnett and Jolie Myers produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Beth Novey adapted it for the Web.
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