Nella Larsenâs fascinating exploration of race and identityâthe inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.\
This Signet Classics edition of Passing includes an Introduction by Brit Bennett, the bestselling author of The Vanishing Half.\
Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her pastâeven hiding the truth from her racist husband.\
Clare finds herself drawn to Ireneâs sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herselfâand her deceptionâinto every part of Ireneâs stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsenâs brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to âpass,â is as timely as ever.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- United States
- Black & African American
- Urban
- Black & African American
- United States
Publisher : Signet
Author : Larsen, Nella
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2021-07-06
Number Of Pages : 176
Binding : mass_market
ISBN-10 : 0593437845
ISBN-13 : 9780593437841
Item weight : 0.15 lb
Dimensions : 0.55 in x 4.13 in x 6.73 in
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