Passing [electronic resource] : Official Netflix tie-in edition
Nella Larsen2021
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Childhood friends Clare and Irene are both light-skinned enough to pass as
white, but only one of them has chosen to cross the colour line and live with
the secret hanging over her. Clare believes she had successfully cut herself off
from any connection to her past. Married to a racist white man who is oblivious
to her African-American heritage, it is vital to her that the truth remains
hidden. Irene is living as a middle-class Black woman with her husband and
children in Harlem, taking on an important role in her community and embracing
her origins.
Both women are forced to re-examine their relationships with each other, with
their husbands and with the truth, confronting their most closely guarded fears.
Nella Larsen's powerful, tragic and acutely observant writing established her as
a lodestar of America's Harlem Renaissance. Almost a century later, Passing and
its nuanced explorat...
Main title:
Author:
Nella Larsen, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Serpent's Tail, 2021
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781800811690
Language:
English
BRN:
437261
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |