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Passing - (Signature Editions) by Nella Larsen
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Highlights
- Irene Redfield is a light-skinned Black woman living in Harlem, New York, with her husband and two sons.
- About the Author: Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen (1891-1964) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories.
- 128 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
- Series Name: Signature Editions
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About the Book
Irene Redfield is a light-skinned Black woman living in Harlem, New York, with her husband and two sons. After a chance encounter, Irene resumes contact with a childhood friend, Clare Kendry. Though Clare is also Black, she is even more fair-skinned than Irene and passes as a white woman--to the point that she's married to a deeply racist white man who has no knowledge of her race. As the two women's lives intertwine with fascination and repulsion, their troubling friendship leads them to examine the choices they've made and face the dangerous consequences.
Book Synopsis
Irene Redfield is a light-skinned Black woman living in Harlem, New York, with her husband and two sons. After a chance encounter, Irene resumes contact with a childhood friend, Clare Kendry. Though Clare is also Black, she is even more fair-skinned than Irene and passes as a white woman--to the point that she's married to a deeply racist white man who has no knowledge of her race. As the two women's lives intertwine with fascination and repulsion, their troubling friendship leads them to examine the choices they've made and face the dangerous consequences.
About the Author
Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen (1891-1964) was an American novelist of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote two novels and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, what she wrote earned her recognition by her contemporaries and by present-day critics.