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Quicksand and Passing by Larsen, Nella; Bennett, Brit is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Quicksand and Passing about?

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming 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 past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband. Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's 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 herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever. publisher

Who reads Quicksand and Passing?

Author

Larsen, Nella; Bennett, Brit

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593437841

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.91 / 5 (3,136 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14