Brit Bennett

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 BAZAARViimeinen 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.

Kuka olisit, jos saisit olla kuka tahansa?Mikä meidät erottaa on mukaansatempaava ja terävä romaani identtisistä kaksosista, joista toinen elää mustana ja toinen valkoisena. Aikamme kiehtovin nuori kirjailija esittää kysymyksistä kaikkein olennaisimman: kuinka minusta tulee minä?Stella ja Desiree Vignes syntyvät 1930-luvulla yhdysvaltalaiseen pikkukaupunkiin, jonka mustille asukkaille tärkeintä on mahdollisimman vaalea hipiä. Varttuessaan kaksoset lähtevät vastakkaisiin suuntiin: toinen päättää elää valkoisena, toinen saa lapsen mustista mustimman miehen kanssa. 50 vuotta myöhemmin heidän tyttärensä joutuvat kohtaamaan edellisten sukupolvien valintojen ja virheiden vaikutuksen. Ajankohtaisten mutta samalla ajattomien elementtien taidokkaasta yhdistelmästä muodostuu havahduttava kertomus siitä, mikä meidät erottaa - ja mikä tuo meidät taas yhteen.Brit Bennett (s. 1990) on kirjallisuusmaailman tuore tähti, joka julkaisi esikoisromaaninsa vain 26-vuotiaana ja jota on jo kutsuttu uudeksi Toni Morrisoniksi. Mikä meidät erottaa -romaania on myyty Yhdysvalloissa jo yli miljoona kappaletta, ja muun muassa TIME, BBC ja The Times Book Review valitsivat sen yhdeksi ilmestymisvuotensa parhaista kirjoista. Kaliforniassa, Yhdysvalloissa syntynyt Bennett on opiskellut luovaa kirjoittamista ja valmistunut Stanfordin yliopistosta.

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.

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?

Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called "The People Could Fly." In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings and fly home to Africa. This gives Claudie an amazing idea for the finale of her show--but will Claudie's creativity be enough to save the home she loves?

Claudie Wells wants more than anything to be a person whose imagination can fly, instead of a person whose feet are stuck on the ground. She believes everyone has a talent except for her. She's growing up in the neighborhood of Harlem in New York City during the 1920s, surrounded by writers and poets, painters and sculptors, actors and dancers, singers and musicians. When an eviction notice threatens her family, friends, and the beloved boardinghouse they share, Claudie has an idea that just might save the day. But first she'll have to find the confidence to let her imagination soar. Meet Claudie includes full color illustrations throughout the book plus discussion questions for each chapter. Also included is a "Looking Back" section that gives an 8-page overview of life in the 1920s.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEAn 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 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' story lines 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.

To mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring 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 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.

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 BAZAARViimeinen 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.

En sommardag 1927 möts två kvinnor på en hotellterrass i Chicago. Irene Redfield märker att någon stirrar på henne och tror först att hon blivit avslöjad. Så känner hon igen kvinnan vid bordet intill som Clare Kendry, barndomsvännen från en helt annan del av staden. Båda kvinnorna passerar som vita på en plats där de egentligen inte har tillträde. Mötet mellan dem leder in på en väg som obönhörligen slutar i tragedi.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED 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.

Som tonåringar rymmer tvillingsystrarna Desiree och Stella Vignes till New Orleans. Där inser Stella för första gången att hennes hud är så ljus att andra människor kan ta henne för vit. Så snart hon upptäckt kraften i den förklädnaden finns ingen återvändo.Tjugo år senare lär två unga kvinnor känna varandra i 80-talets Los Angeles. På ytan har de inte mycket gemensamt, men de delar samma rötter.

Tvillingsøstrene Stella og Desiree vokser opp i sørstatene på sekstitallet, i en liten by befolket av svarte med lys hud. De to jentene er uatskillelige, og da faren deres blir myrdet, rømmer de hjemmefra sammen. Men en dag er Stella borte. Hun har oppdaget at hun kan passere som hvit, og har dratt til California for å starte et nytt liv, med en hvit mann, en ny identitet, uten noen bånd til fortiden. Desiree sørger over søsterens sporløse forsvinning og slutter aldri å lete etter henne.De to søstrene får hver sin datter, en hvit og en svart, som ikke vil la fortidens hemmeligheter ligge. Slik fortsetter skjebnene til Stella og Desiree å flettes sammen, på godt og vondt.Det som forsvinner er en spennende historie om familie, identitet og tilhørighet. Klokt og følsomt skildrer Brit Bennett hvordan bakgrunnen vår er med oss uansett hvor vi er og hvilke valg vi tar. Men først og fremst er dette en fascinerende fortelling om søstre, mødre og døtre – om hvor sterke båndene er, selv på sitt svakeste.«Rydd plass i kalenderen: Det som forsvinner er ikke en bok du leser etappevis. Brit Bennett maner fram en sterk historie om å søke ut av seg selv og bli tvunget tilbake til røttene. Fortellingen er spekket med lengsel og dype sår, og hele veien utforsker den hva det koster å oppnå det du drømmer om. Tidvis blir det så spennende at armhårene reiser seg ... Det som forsvinner er en bok som er sjeldent rik på kvaliteter. Enten det er plottdrevne sidevendere eller intelligente fortellinger du liker best, vil du få sulten stagget. Se opp for Brit Bennett denne bokvåren.» Joakim Tjøstheim, Dagbladet«... et energisk pulserende verk skapt i tradisjonen fra svarte mesterfortellere som James Baldwin, Maya Angelou og Toni Morrison.» Steinar Sivertsen, Stavanger Aftenblad«Nyansert om kjønn og hudfarge … verdt å lese for enhver som setter pris på en god fortelling med et godt budskap … Bennett er så god til å flette en forutsigbar agenda sammen med nyanserte portretter at man følgerhenne hele veien.» Kenneth Moe, Aftenposten«Bennetts tone og stil minner om James Baldwin og Jacqueline Woodson, men bringer særlig tankene til Toni Morrisons debutroman fra 1970, The Bluest Eye.» Wall Street Journal«En universell, tidløs historie ... På gjennomborende og subtilt vis nærmer den seg spørsmålet om hvem vi er og hvem vi vil være.» Entertainment Weekly«Nydelig skrevet … en ambisiøs og klok betraktning om rase og identitet.» The New York Times«Håpet er at den velfortjente rosen Bennett får for denne romanen, har mindre å gjøre med at hun skriver om tidsriktige eller ‘relevante’ temaer enn med hennes innsikt i den mystiske materien vi kaller sannhet: en blanding av de identitetene vi er født med, og de vi selv skaper.» The Wall Street Journal«Briljant … Det som forsvinner handler i bunn og grunn om en universell forsvinner. Det dreier seg om den delen av oss som forsvinner idet vi forlater hjemmet.» Los Angeles Times«Dette må være en av de beste og modigste bøkene i 2020 … En fortelling om familie, identitet, rase, historie og innsikt. Bennetts mesterverk er en triumph for karakterdrevet fortelling. » ELLE«Fullstendig fengslende ... Jeg elsket denne boken. » Benardine Evaristo«En storartet, skinnende, mektig intelligent roman. » Deborah Levy

En international bestseller om at finde sin vej i verden i jagten på det gode liv, ægte kærlighed og en identitet, man selv har valgt. Det der skiller os er den amerikanske forfatter Brit Bennetts rørende page-turner om familierelationer, kærlighed og raceforskel. Samtidig er den et fremragende portræt af det amerikanske samfund fra 1950’erne til 1990’erne – og en roman, der med dyb empati udforsker vores forhold til fortiden, hvordan den former os, hvordan vi holder fast i den, og hvordan vi forsøger at undslippe den. De enæggede tvillinger Stella og Desiree Vignes vokser op i en lille sydstatsflække befolket af sorte, der i 1950’ernes USA er født til et liv uden de hvides privilegier. De to piger er uadskillelige som børn og stikker som 16-årige af sammen fra byen og deres mor i troen på et bedre liv. Men skæbnen og deres livsvalg skiller dem ad, og tvillingerne ender med at leve to meget forskellige liv langt fra hinanden. Desiree vender efter mange år tilbage til barndomsbyen sammen med sin datter til et liv som sort. Stella derimod udnytter, at hun grundet sin lyse hud kan gå for at være hvid og bosætter sig i Californien, hvor hun lever et liv som velhavende husmor med en mand og en datter, der ikke kender hendes ophav. Selv adskilt af mange kilometer og løgne er tvillingerne og senere deres døtres skæbner uløseligt forbundet. Det der skiller os er en medfølende og begavet roman, der undersøger driften mod et bedre liv og den pris, vi er villige til at betale for at leve som en anden. Romanen er Brit Bennetts store gennembrud. Den gik direkte ind som #1 på New York Times’ bestsellerliste, forlag i over 30 lande har købt bogen, ligesom HBO har sikret sig filmrettighederne. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Bogen er oversat af Juliane Wammen

#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.

Som tonåringar rymmer tvillingsystrarna Desiree och Stella Vignes till New Orleans. Där inser Stella för första gången att hennes hud är så ljus att andra människor kan ta henne för vit. Så snart hon upptäckt kraften i den förklädnaden finns ingen återvändo.Tjugo år senare lär två unga kvinnor känna varandra i 80-talets Los Angeles. På ytan har de inte mycket gemensamt, men de delar samma rötter. Hämta bokcirkelfrågor till Hjärtlinjer här >>

'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 'Wonderful - warm and tender and necessary' Yaa Gyasi