Brit Bennett Knihy

Sestry Vignesové, identické dvojčatá, spolu vyrastali v malej chudobnej komunite. V šestnástich utiekli z domu, lebo nezniesli predstavu, že by sa po zvyšok života plahočili v domoch boháčov ako upratovačky. Nápad na útek sa rodil v hlave dravšej Desiree celé roky. Prispôsobivejšia Stella by bez sestry neprežila, a tak sa podvolila. Útek však všetko zmenil. Kým jedna teraz žije ako beloška a svoj pôvod tají aj pred manželom, druhá uteká z násilného vzťahu s dieťaťom na rukách späť do rodného mesta. Ale aj keď ich delia dlhé kilometre a klamstvá, osudy dvojčiat sú ešte vždy prepletené. Čo sa stane s ďalšou generáciou, keď sa línie života ich dcér pretnú? Brit Bennett spletá vlákna osudov tejto rodiny od päťdesiatych rokov 20. storočia po deväťdesiate roky a ponúka nám príbeh, ktorý je nielen pútavý, ale je aj brilantným pohľadom do americkej histórie. Nehovorí len o rasových otázkach, ale aj o trvalom vplyve minulosti, ktorá formuje rozhodnutia ľudí, ich túžby a očakávania a odhaľuje rozličné dôvody, prečo ľudia niekedy žijú inak, než by mali.

The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community - and the things that ultimately haunt us most. It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, 17-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. They are young; it's not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance - and the subsequent cover-up - will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth.

"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? 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."--Provided by publisher

Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called “The People Could Fly." In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings and fly home to Africa. This gives Claudie an amazing idea for the finale of her show—but will Claudie's creativity be enough to save the home she loves?

Was bedeutet es, wenn ein weißes Publikum auf einmal eifrig Filme und Bücher über schwarzes Leid konsumiert? Warum fällt es den Medien so schwer, weißen Terrorismus als ebensolchen zu benennen? Warum waren Schwimmbäder schon immer Orte, an denen sich die Diskriminierung auf besondere Art manifestierte, und sind es noch heute? Wie gestalten wir die Zukunft, wenn wir umgeben sind von Menschen, die die Vergangenheit zurückersehnen? Und: Wird der Traum, durch die Zeit zu reisen, nicht immer ein weißes Privileg sein? Dieser Band versammelt acht brillante Essays, in denen sich Brit Bennett mit Fragen des Rassismus in all seinen Facetten auseinandersetzt.