A Novel
by Brit Bennett
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“I LOVED that book. Reading @britrbennett's The Vanishing Half and it's amazing. So was The Mothers.”
Source →Recommended by 3 notable people, including Sarah Jessica Parker and Nancy Pearl
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Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret."All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourne...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Fiction.
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Sarah Jessica Parker
American actress (born 1965)
“I LOVED that book. Reading @britrbennett's The Vanishing Half and it's amazing. So was The Mothers.”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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