HBO Will Turn Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half Into a Limited Series

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Brit Bennett’s bestselling novel The Vanishing Half will become a limited series on HBO following an intense bidding war.

is an epic of sorts, following two twin sisters growing up in a fictional town in Jim Crow Louisiana that was established for light-skinned Black residents. The sisters leave home at 16 and their lives diverge—one moves to New Orleans and marries “the darkest man she could find,” and the other moves to California, where she passes for white and starts a white family.The book came out earlier this month and the response has been explosive. It hit No.

Over the past two weeks, I’ve seen good white people congratulate themselves for deleting racist friends or debating family members or performing small acts of kindness to Black people. Sometimes I think I’d prefer racist trolling to this grade of self-aggrandizement. A racist troll is easy to dismiss. He does not think decency is enough. Sometimes I think good white people expect to be rewarded for their decency. We are not like those other white people.

Over the past two weeks, I have fluctuated between anger and grief. I feel surrounded by Black death. What a privilege, to concern yourself with seeming good while the rest of us want to seem worthy of life.

 

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