The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)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

his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King

And what really lies beneath his rough exterior

the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African

They don't belong here

but also nuggets of history through the biographies of the inventors

the hopes and dreams of herself in this powerful painting of Michelle Obama

her court threatens mutiny

following the landmark civil rights case Brown vs

and the power of one person reaching out to another in the fight for change

Mississippi Freedom Summer

and sexuality

Then she hits him with her car--supposedly by accident