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A NETFLIX BOOK CLUB PICKNella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today. A New York Times Editors'Choice. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to “pass” as a white woman. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clare's risky decision to engage in racial masquerade for personal and societal gain. After frequenting African American-centric gatherings together in Harlem, Clare's interest in Irene turns into a homoerotic longing for Irene's black identity that she abandoned and can never embrace again, and she is forced to grapple with her decision to pass for white in a way that is both tragic and telling. This edition features a new introduction by Emily Bernard and notes by Th

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Author

Nella Larsen

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786508075

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.81 / 5 (10,921 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14