The Other Half That Disappeared: Love begins with acceptance

You can never really get to know a man unless you walk around in his shoes and think in his shoes. But when you walk through his path, you even feel sad to pass by, sometimes what you see is not the truth, what you know is only the tip of the iceberg floating on the surface. - "To Kill a Mockingbird"

I never imagined a situation where people who obviously looked alike could break into the house and kill another person in front of his daughter. At no cost.

Desileigh and Stella didn't understand either.

Why do they look so much like white people, and the jobs they can do are very different.

Why their safety can be trampled on arbitrarily.

Why should they be inferior everywhere, endure their ridicule, avoid their obscenity, and be at their mercy.

There is no need to endure any longer. The twins both made their own choices.

Desilei gave up her white appearance and only fell in love with a guy as black as carbon, married, and her daughter Jude was too black to be recognized in the night.

Instead, Stella gave up her original identity to live with the white man she feared the most, pretending to be born white.

That's the story that The Other Half Of Disappeared tells. The striking twins, Desi lei and Stella, how they face the choices in life, and how those choices make them.

This is the second novel of the post-90s writer Britt Bennett, which occupied the first place in the New York Times bestseller list as soon as it was published, and was judged by dozens of mainstream media in Europe and the United States.

No matter where they are, no matter what their identity, each reader has his or her own opinions and opinions on the different life choices of the characters of the book.

I think so.

In the story, Desilei, Stella, Jude, and Kennedy have their own beauty and sadness. As people outside the story, we can't even give a little warm hug, only a deep sigh.

As the smartest of the twins, Stella wasn't happy.

She lived a good life, but she always lived in fear. Fear of losing a leisurely life, fear of being spurned by others, fear of suddenly revealing the truth about the illusion of hard work.

She didn't dare to live a real life, didn't dare to miss her family, and didn't dare to make friends.

Even her own child, she did not dare to take off the mask and hug it sincerely.

She lived a good life, but she had nothing.

There is no protection from a mother, no blessing from a sister, and no love from a daughter.

She didn't even dare tell her husband, who had been sleeping with her for years, that she was the one he avoided.

Stella's tragedy begins the moment she abandons her identity.

Her stupid sister Desilei, despite the hardships of life, has a mother, boyfriend, and daughter who love her around her.

Although because of her identity, she has professional skills and can only spend her days with coffee in small-town cafes. The money you make in a lifetime is not enough to buy one of Stella's rings. But she was still happy and strong.

Desilei's unwavering love for herself, her husband who supported her to escape domestic violence, met the love of this life.

It is also because of this love that her daughter Jude can meet true love and meet a better life.

As the only dark carbon-like guy in a group of light skin tones, Jude did not suffer less.

Although she has a strong love for her mother and grandmother, she is still depressed and sad in this discriminatory environment, and it is difficult to live a hard life.

So when she went to college, she chose to leave her hometown and go to a more inclusive city.

Here, she meets a different kind of "man" Reese.

Unlike the love of her mother and grandmother, Reece's love for her makes Jude realize her worth. It turns out that I am really excellent, beautiful, and worthy of being loved.

Jude also loves Rees, and though tough, she embraces Reese's quirks and stubbornness, just as Reese taught her.

She even worked overtime to save money to support Reese in achieving her dreams. Guided by the Underworld, Jude meets the legendary other half, Stella, and her daughter Kenneth.

Jude and Kenneth are as different as black and white.

Unlike Jude, Kenneth, although a wealthy family, never received the full love of his mother Stella. Stella either reprimanded her with a harsh education or simply doted on her with a laissez-faire attitude.

Kenneth, who cannot be tolerated and supported, abandons himself, has no future planning, has to get by, and squanders his youth like a gamble.

Because of the support of love, Jude can choose her favorite profession and live a better and better life.

Because of the lack of love, Kenneth chooses to create a bigger and bigger mess for her mother Stella to clean up, she is punishing her mother and blaming herself.

The novel "The Other Half That Disappeared" has many characters, but each has its own story.

Everyone has their own sorrows, their own fears, their own difficulties.

Desilei is saddened by her sister's non-farewell, afraid of sudden violence, and trapped in financial troubles that cannot be escaped.

Stella is saddened by the concealment she has to do, afraid of the revelation of her identity, trapped in the crowd she is afraid of and unable to get out.

In that era, unlike the identity of white people, it was a common difficulty for everyone.

If all people choose to run away from everything like Stella, instead of fighting, I am afraid there will be no open freedom of Jude's generation.

Although the world is not satisfactory, it still can't stop us from loving it deeply. Only love, only acceptance, can make it better.

There is only one kind of heroism in life, that is, after recognizing the truth of life, still love life. --Romain Rolland