Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person’s decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the American history of passing. Goodreads The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Her son―the last of their line―is Knut, born in chapter three in a Leipzig zoo but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo, until his keeper, Matthias, is taken away… Happy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and “the intimacy of being alone with my pen.” In chapter two, Tosca, her daughter (born in Canada, where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in the circus. In chapter one, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. Goodreads Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yōko Tawada And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. Goodreads Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perezĭata is fundamental to the modern world. That’s when the first ace arrives in the mail.Ĭhosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who’s behind Ed’s mission? His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. He’s pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future.

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