Going Beyond the Blurb

  Title: Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race  Author: Reni Eddo-Lodge July: Politics/Current Affairs Blurb: The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicating black history to the inextricable link between class and race, why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today.  I'm a bit late in posting this book review as this book was supposed to be my 'July Review' as part of my 12 months, 12 genre challenge but I took my time to read this one, flicking to the back of the book each time there was a note to read and sometimes rereading paragraphs to fully take in what I was reading. I have to admit, I was a bit nervous about choosing this book. Not because I didn't want to face up to any home-truths that might be pointed out or that I might notice some racist familiarities in my own life, but because I wasn't sure in

Title : The Vanishing Half  Author : Brit Bennett Blurb : Twins, inseparable as children, 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. 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? There has been ALOT of hype about this book and I couldn't wait to get my hands on it to find out what it's all abou