![]() ![]() Masterfully plotted and infinitely illuminating, Quicksand and Passing are two of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance. One, slightly more light-skinned than the other, lives her life passing for a white person, married to a flagrant racist while her friend observes uneasily. In Passing, two childhood friends reconnect later in life. It becomes easy for her to leave behind places but the discrimination she's running from is inescapable. The first, Quicksand, follows a mixed-race woman who runs from the fictional town of Naxos to Chicago to Harlem to Copenhagen. Nella Larsen wrote two novels in her lifetime, both of which are collected here. ![]() Larsen published a few more works, including Passing, but did not publish anything after 1930. ![]() She started her writing career when she published her first novel, Quicksand, in 1928. 'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity' In the 1920s, Larsen moved to Harlem and began working as a librarian. VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIESĬelebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. ![]()
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