She pioneered writing about the conflicts of sexuality, race and the secret suffering of women in the early twentieth century. Nella Larsen's novels are moving, characterful, and important books. Reconnecting in adulthood, Clare has chosen to live as a white woman, while Irene embraces black culture and has an important role in her community. Written a year later, Passing tells the story of two childhood friends, Clare and Irene, both light skinned enough to pass as white. Quicksand, written in 1928, is an autobiographical novel about Helga Crane, a mixed race woman caught between fulfilling her desires and gaining respectability in her middle class neighbourhood. Critically acclaimed, both speak powerfully of the contradictions and restrictions experienced by black women at that time. B.A writer of the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen wrote just two novels, published here, and a handful of short stories. 'Absolutely absorbing, fascinating and indispensable' Alice Walker 'A beloved novel from the Harlem Renaissance that follows the fraught relationship between two childhood friends, one who passes for white and one who chooses not to' Brit Bennett 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.
Throughout the novel, the mixed-race Helga finds herself torn in her loyalties and. In Passing, two childhood friends reconnect later in life. Larsen completed two novelsQuicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). 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. 'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity' 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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