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Brit Bennett

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Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 902,254 ratings · 73,069 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors
The Vanishing Half
4.15 avg rating — 755,871 ratings — published 2020 — 130 editions
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The Mothers
3.89 avg rating — 119,450 ratings — published 2016 — 51 editions
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Some People Have Real Problems
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Meet Claudie
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Je ne sais pas quoi faire d...
4.11 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions
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Butterball
3.56 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2014
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Adventures with Claudie (Am...
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“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
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“People thought that being one of a kind made you special. No, it just made you lonely. What was special was belonging with someone else.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
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“She hadn't realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.”
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