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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! The #1 New York Times bestseller with over 1 million copies sold, "a story of absolute, universal timelessness" (Entertainment Weekly), now in paperback for the first time.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 diffe...

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Mallard, ein kleiner Ort in Louisiana. Seine Bewohner blicken mit Stolz auf eine lange Tradition und Geschichte - und vor allem auf ihre Kinder, die mit jeder Generation hellhäutiger zu werden scheinen. Hier werden in den 1950ern Stella und Desiree geboren, Zwillinge von ganz unterschiedlichem Wesen. Nur in einem sind sie sich einig: An diesem Ort sehen sie keine Zukunft. In New Orleans, wohin sie flüchten, trennen sich ihre Wege. Denn Stella ...

Was bedeutet es, wenn ein weißes Publikum auf einmal eifrig Filme und Bücher über schwarzes Leid konsumiert? Warum fällt es den Medien so schwer, weißen Terrorismus als eben solchen zu benennen? Warum waren Schwimmbäder schon immer Orte, an denen sich die Diskriminierung auf besondere Art manifestierte, und sind es noch heute? Wie gestalten wir die Zukunft, wenn wir umgeben sind von Menschen, die die Vergangenheit zurücksehnen? Und: Wird der T...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR TIME MAGAZINE'S #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick "Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019'Epic' Kiley Reid, O, The Oprah MagazineThe 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 everyt...

The Mothers has stayed with me since I first read it, the words and the intimacy of the prose seeping into my pores' Roxanne Gay It's the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They ar...

Mallard, ein kleiner Ort im ländlichen Louisiana. Seine Bewohner blicken mit Stolz auf eine lange Tradition und Geschichte, und vor allem auf ihre Kinder, die von Generation zu Generation hellhäutiger zu werden scheinen. Hier werden in den 1950ern Stella und Desiree geboren, Zwillingsschwestern von ganz unterschiedlichem Wesen. Aber in einem sind sie sich einig: An diesem Ort sehen sie keine Zukunft für sich. In New Orleans, wohin sie flüchten...

Zwei Schwestern, die eine ganze Welt trennt Ein kleiner Ort im ländlichen Louisiana. Seine afroamerikanischen Bewohner blicken mit Stolz auf eine lange Tradition und Geschichte, und vor allem auf ihre Kinder, die von Generation zu Generation hellhäutiger zu werden scheinen. Stella und Desiree etwa, Zwillingsschwestern von ganz unterschiedlichem Wesen. Aber in einem sind sie sich einig: Hier sehen sie keine Zukunft für sich. In New Orleans tren...

This is a moving, elegantly structured family saga, set between the 1950s and the 1990s. It's the story of twin sisters, Desiree and Stella. As teenagers, both girls run away from their small hometown, but Desiree eventually returns with her dark-skinned daughter, whereas Stella decides to pass as white, moves to LA and has a daughter whom she also raises as white. Stella values the advantages of passing, but is terrified about being found out...

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,...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.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 everythin...

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! "Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye." -Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal "A story of absolute, universal timelessness …For any era, it's an accomplished, affecting novel. For this moment, it's piercing, subtly wending its way toward questions about who we are and who we want to be…." - Ent...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white.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 everythin...

«Die Mütter», so nennen sie die alten Frauen in der kleinen kalifornischen Gemeinde Oceanside. Sie sind Zeugen des Skandals, mit dem dieser Roman beginnt. Ein Skandal ist es, wenigstens aus ihrer Sicht: dass Nadia Turner, deren Mutter sich das Leben genommen hat, mit Luke, dem Sohn des Pastors ... dass Nadia Turner ein Baby bekommt ... oder vielmehr beschließt, es nicht zu bekommen. Und das ist erst der Anfang der Geschichte. Anders als Luke k...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught." -The New York Times Book Review"Luminous… engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." -People, Pick of the Week "Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." -The Washington PostA dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community-and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within ...

Ambientato nella comunità nera della California del Sud, il romanzo d'esordio di Brit Bennett è un libro sull'amore, sui desideri, sulle luci e le ombre - scandagliate senza retorica e con coraggio - dell'essere madri. A narrarci la storia dei giovani, poi adulti, Nadia, Luke e Aubrey, sono "le madri", il cuore della comunità della Upper Room Chapel, che danno voce al coro senza tempo delle donne, a volte pettegole e spietate ma più spesso cap...