New Releases by Brit Bennett

Follow along for more of Claudie’s story as she goes to Georgia to learn the truth about her family. This poignant and powerful sequel by New York Times bestselling author, Brit Bennett, is set in the Harlem Renaissance and celebrates Black artistic expression and achievement. Claudie is thrilled to be on the road with Mama and Cousin Sidney, traveling from Harlem to Georgia to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. Claudie hopes this trip will inspire her to write a play that will raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. In Georgia, Claudie's grandma tells her a legend from slavery times called "The People Could Fly." In it, and old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings and fly home to Africa. This story gives Claudie a great idea for her play--but will her creativity be enough to save the home she loves?

Kirkas kertomus nuoresta rakkaudesta ja liian varhain tehdyistä valinnoista. Mikä meidät erottaa -menestysteoksen tekijän häikäisevä romaani siitä mitä tahdomme ja siitä mihin tyydymme. Uudeksi Toni Morrisoniksi kutsuttu Brit Bennett vakiinnuttaa paikkansa tärkeimpien nykykirjailijoiden joukossa. ”Lumoava, hätkähdyttävän realistinen kuvaus siitä, kuinka menneisyys seuraa meitä aikuisuuteen asti – riippumatta siitä, kuinka kauas kotoa karkaamme.” HARPER’S BAZAAR Viimeinen kesä ennen yliopistoa, minkään ei pitäisi olla vielä vakavaa. Kun 17-vuotias Nadia Turner sitten tulee raskaaksi ja tekee abortin, se muuttaa peruuttamattomasti kolmen nuoren elämän. Vuosia myöhemmin he joutuvat kasvotusten tekemiensä valintojen kanssa. Saiko heistä kukaan sen mitä toivoi, vai elävätkö he elämää, jonka suunnasta päättivät huomaamattaan ja aivan liian nuorina? Brit Bennettin viisas ja koskettava romaani sukeltaa syvälle perheeseen, ystävyyteen sekä tapaan, jolla menetykset ihmisiä muovaavat. Brit Bennett (s. 1990) on kirjallisuusmaailman tuore tähti, jota on jo nyt kutsuttu uudeksi Toni Morrisoniksi. Hän julkaisi ylistetyn esikoisromaaninsa Äidit vain 26-vuotiaana. Hänen toinen teoksensa Mikä meidät erottaa vietti useita viikkoa New York Timesin bestsellerlistalla ja muun muassa TIME, BBC ja The Times Book Review valitsivat sen yhdeksi ilmestymisvuotensa parhaista kirjoista. Kaliforniassa, Yhdysvalloissa syntynyt Bennett on valmistunut Stanfordin yliopistosta.

Claudie Wells is growing up in 1920s Harlem and is in awe of the artists all around her. Her father is a talented baker, her mother is a reporter for a renowned newspaper, and her boardinghouse mates include a jazz singer, cornet player, and painter. Claudie dreams of having a special talent all her own but struggles to find her calling. When an eviction notice threatens her beloved home, Claudie takes a risk to pursue an idea that just might turn things around. Her story is richly illustrated and includes an introduction from the author. --Provided by publisher.

A fekete ikerlányok, Desiree és Stella tizenhat évesen elszöknek az isten háta mögötti otthonukból, de hamarosan megszakad köztük a kapcsolat. Sok évvel később Desiree bántalmazó férje elől menekülve visszaköltözik kislányával a szülővárosukba, miközben a világosabb bőrű Stella fehérként éli az életét, és még férje sem tud semmit a múltjáról. Hiába ékelődik azonban az ikerlányok közé sok kilométer és hazugság, sorsuk újra összefonódik. És mi történik vajon, amikor lányaik útjai is keresztezik egymást? Brit Bennett az amerikai Déltől egészen Kaliforniáig ívelő, több generációt felvonultató családregényében egyszerre mesél érzelmekben gazdag történetet, és nyújt betekintést az amerikai történelem egyik meghatározó időszakába. A faji kérdéseken jócskán túlmutató könyvéből kiderül, hogy milyen hosszú árnyékot vethet a múlt egy ember döntéseire, vágyaira és elvárásaira, és hogy milyen okai lehetnek annak, ha valaki a gyökereitől elszakadva kénytelen élni. A halványuló fél 2020 egyik legnagyobb könyvszenzációja volt, megjelenését követően az HBO szinte azonnal lecsapott a megfilmesítési jogaira. A Dél-Kaliforniában született és nevelkedett Brit Bennett a Stanfordon és a University of Michiganen végzett. A National Book Foundation jelölte a „Harmincöt év alatti tehetségek” elismerésre, esszéi olyan rangos lapokban jelentek meg, mint a The New Yorker, a The New York Times Magazine, a The Paris Review és a Jezebel. Az anyák után ez a második regénye.

Mallard, Louisiana, è il paese dove si è riunita una comunità di neri dalla pelle chiara, "che non sarebbero mai stati accettati come bianchi ma rifiutavano di farsi trattare come neri". In un posto così non passa inosservato il ritorno di Desiree Vignes e della piccola June, la sua bimba, che ha la pelle nerissima. Anni prima Desiree era fuggita da Mallard e da un terribile ricordo, la morte del padre massacrato da un gruppo di bianchi: ma ora per lei il paese rappresenta la salvezza, il luogo invisibile in cui sottrarsi a un marito violento. Desiree, però, non era fuggita da sola ma insieme a Stella, l'inseparabile gemella identica a lei. Non sapevano ancora, le due sorelle, che a New Orleans la sorte le avrebbe divise e Stella sarebbe a sua volta scomparsa. Passano gli anni, June cresce e giunge anche per lei il momento di lasciare Mallard. In California, dove è arrivata per studiare medicina, incontra un ragazzo che una volta si chiamava Therese e una giovane attrice dagli occhi viola: grazie a loro scoprirà il segreto di Stella e, forse, potrà ricucire due destini separati dal razzismo e da un sogno di libertà. Quanto siamo liberi di diventare ciò che davvero siamo rispetto al destino che altri – la famiglia, la comunità – hanno scelto per noi? Brit Bennett mette in scena l'avventura di chi abbraccia le proprie radici e di chi transita verso nuove identità, razziali e di genere, e con questo romanzo ci offre una grande occasione per interrogarci sul mondo che vogliamo, per aprire gli occhi sullo spirito dei tempi.

The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Quatorze ans après la disparition des jumelles Vignes, l’une d’elles réapparaît à Mallard, leur ville natale, dans le Sud d’une Amérique fraîchement déségrégationnée. Adolescentes, elles avaient fugué main dans la main, décidées à affronter le monde. Pourtant, lorsque Desiree refait surface, elle a perdu la trace de sa jumelle depuis bien longtemps: Stella a disparu des années auparavant pour mener à Boston la vie d’une jeune femme Blanche. Mais jusqu’où peut-on renoncer à une partie de soi-même ? Dans ce roman magistral sur l’identité, l’auteure interroge les mailles fragiles dont sont tissés les individus, entre la filiation, le rêve de devenir une autre personne et le besoin dévorant de trouver sa place.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST “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….” – Entertainment Weekly 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 everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many 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 white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins. As with her New York Times-bestselling debut The Mothers, Brit Bennett offers an engrossing page-turner about family and relationships that is immersive and provocative, compassionate and wise.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half. The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that haunt us most. 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 sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season. 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 are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully manoeuvre and dogged by the constant, nagging question: what if they had chosen differently? In entrancing, lyrical prose, THE MOTHERS asks whether a 'what if' can be more powerful than an experience itself.

De tweelingzussen Desiree en Stella Vignes zijn elkaars spiegelbeeld. Op zestienjarige leeftijd lopen ze samen weg van de kleine, zuidelijke zwarte gemeenschap waarin ze zijn opgegroeid, maar al snel scheiden hun wegen. Eenmaal volwassen lijkt hun spiegelbeeld te zijn vervlogen. Niet alleen de invulling van hun dagelijks leven verschilt, alles is anders: hun families, hun gemeenschap, hun identiteit. Jaren later leeft een van de zussen met haar zwarte dochter in hetzelfde zuidelijke stadje dat ze ooit probeerde te ontvluchten. De ander gaat door het leven als witte vrouw en vertelt haar witte echtgenoot niets over haar verleden. Maar gescheiden door vele kilometers en evenzoveel leugens blijft het lot van de tweeling vervlochten. Wat zal er met de volgende generatie gebeuren, wanneer de paden van hun eigen dochters zich kruisen?

En la conservadora comunidad de Oceandrive hay un grupo de mujeres que se reúnen en torno a la iglesia de Upper Room a contar los chismes del pueblo: tres jóvenes, Nadia, Luke y Aubrey se enredan en un triángulo amoroso. Narrada a múltiples voces y con una fascinante prosa lírica, la historia es una mezcla de secretos, amistad, traición y muerte que marca el paso de la adolescencia a la adultez, con el sinsabor de una pregunta molesta: ¿y si hubiera tomado otra decisión?

« Tous les grands secrets ont un goût particulier. » Nadia a 17 ans et la vie devant elle. Mais quand elle perd sa mère et avorte en cachette, tout change. Elle choisit alors de quitter la communauté noire et religieuse qui l’a vue grandir. Boursière dans une grande université, Nadia fréquente l’élite. Elle a laissé derrière elle Luke, son ancien amant aux rêves brisés, et Aubrey, sa meilleure amie. Durant une décennie marquée des affres de la vie, les trajectoires des trois jeunes gens vont se croiser puis diverger, tendues à l’extrême par le poids du secret. Dans la lignée d’Elena Ferrante et de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Brit Bennett donne voix à des héros en quête d’accomplissement et nous offre un roman lumineux, inoubliable.

Tudo começa com um segredo. As ramificações que se seguem vão acompanhar três personagens desde o fim da adolescência até o início da vida adulta, exercendo um impacto capaz de influenciar suas trajetórias por muito tempo depois de seus anos de juventude. Em uma comunidade negra e cristã no sul da Califórnia, Nadia Turner, uma garota bonita, obstinada e ainda marcada pelo recente suicídio da mãe, será a primeira da família a cursar uma universidade, mas, antes de deixar sua cidade natal, ela se envolve com o filho do pastor da igreja, Luke Sheppard. Aos vinte e um anos, Luke é um ex-atleta que trabalha como garçom depois que uma grave lesão o afastou dos campos. Os dois são jovens e não oficializam o relacionamento, mas o segredo que resulta desse romance terá consequências maiores do que eles imaginam. Anos depois, eles ainda vivem à sombra das escolhas da juventude e da insistente dúvida: e se tivessem feito diferente? As possibilidades do caminho não tomado se tornam uma sombra implacável. Romance de estreia de Brit Bennett, As Mães chamou atenção dos críticos antes mesmo de ser lançado nos Estados Unidos. Com um estilo sofisticado e atual, a autora demonstra uma ampla compreensão da alma humana e de como as traições e perdas podem moldar comunidades inteiras. Uma obra necessária, que questiona até que ponto devemos servidão às decisões da juventude e às comunidades que nos criaram.

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 white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters storylines intersect? Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Looking well beyond the issues of race, it considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations.