A classic of the Harlem Renaissance reissued to coincide with the major Netflix adaptation of Passing (2021)
Nella Larsen was born in Chicago in 1893 to a Danish mother and a West Indian father. She began writing during the Harlem Renaissance, a period during which Black artists, writers, and musicians finally began to attain prominence in the New York artistic scene. The success of her novels Quicksand and Passing made Nella Larsen one of the most fêted woman writers of her generation. She died in 1964 in obscurity.
Absolutely absorbing, fascinating and indispensable
*Alice Walker*
Highly charged... an original and hugely insightful writer
*The New York Times*
Discovering the fiction of Nella Larsen is like finding lost money
with no name on it. One can enjoy it with delight and share it
without guilt
*Maya Angelou*
Larsen's heroines are complex, restless, figures, whose hungers and
frustrations will haunt every sensitive reader
*Sarah Waters*
Strangely, alarmingly moving. It gave shape and language to the
racial ambivalence I experienced ... narrative may the best tool we
have for binding together the disparate elements that make up the
self
*Alexandra Kleeman*
A groundbreaking novel of intersectionality ... tightly woven and
plaintive
*Vox*
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