The Vanishing Half is a tale of black, but light skinned, identical twins, Desiree and Stella Vignes, who run away from home, from a small; almost invisible town in Louisiana called Mallard, at a very tender age of sixteen to live the American dream. Their new life is barely taking shape after the vanishing act and just then one of the twins decides to go incognito and start a separate life passing for white, leaving the other in the lurch. Spread over many decades, this book follows the respective lives of the twins and how their choices touch the lives of their children and loved ones, only to come full circle, back to where it all began - the town of Mallard. In this episode Palak and I discuss the plot, the characters and what a fabulous writer Brit is!