The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

An engaging best-selling novel about race and society, love and destiny.

“‘We’re friends,’ she said again. ‘I don’t know why you can’t see that.’

‘I don’t know why you can’t see that you’re not…..I don’t know why you’re fighting it neither. What could be better than being eighteen and in love? Oh, you don’t even know. If I could go back, I’d do everything different.’

‘Like what?’ she said.

‘Oh, everything.’ He turned back to the mirror. ‘This big ol’ world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.'”

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