![]() ![]() A month ago the idea of being in a crowd would be so unthinkable. “Particularly coming off this extreme period of isolation that a lot of us have been experiencing. People watching the protest walk by, people supporting and clapping,” Bennett said this week, a few days after the release of her new novel, The Vanishing Half. “It was cool to see people hanging out their windows and yelling out support, cars honking, and people watching everything. From the Brooklyn apartment where she has weathered the pandemic, she has also watched a protest movement bloom, and has even joined the marchers. ![]() ![]() When the novelist Brit Bennett moved to New York City last year to teach writing classes, she didn’t anticipate that she would eventually get a front-row seat to the type of social change she has contemplated in her writing. ![]()
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