Chapters 1 - 2
• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennet. Riverhead Books, 2020.
• This book is written in third person narration.
• The morning one of the lost twins returned to Mallard, Lou LeBon ran to the diner to break the news.
• On that morning in April of 1968, on his way to work, Lou spotted Desiree Vignes walking along the road, with a small suitcase and a dark-skinned Black girl in tow.
• At Lou’s diner, he discussed what he had seen with his customers.
• In particular, they were interested in the little girl.
• The twins had been gone 14 years, nearly as long as anyone had ever known them in Mallard.
• They vanished after the Founder’s Day dance, never to be seen again until now.
• In Mallard, “nobody married dark” (5).
• Lou wondered if he should call Adele Vignes.
• Mallard...
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