The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her

Louis Armstrong

her parents draw the line

lawman Bass Reeves

But Petra refuses to listen

but we can all understand that the fuel that works for one stage of our journey might have to be changed if we want to make it all the way home

Maybe it's how you look or talk

He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather

How do you balance your identities if you're an immigrant or the child of immigrants

I am a go-getter

grumpy Zaf is secretly a hopeless romantic--and he's determined to corrupt Dani's stone-cold realism

Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night

southern black community and running away at age sixteen