{"product_id":"passing-9780486437132","title":"Passing","description":"\"Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.\" -- Alice Walker\u003cbr\u003e\"A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Review of Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMarried to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been \"passing for white.\" An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her fictional portraits of women seeking their identities through a fog of racial confusion were informed by her own Danish-West Indian parentage, and \u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the shining stars of the Harlem Renaissance, Nellallitea \"Nella\" Larsen (April 13, 1891-March 30, 1964) left behind only two novels and a handful of short stories -- but Larsen's remarkable voice and vision has ensured her place in literary history.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50589363929362,"sku":"9780486437132","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_435922b2-8713-40f8-9908-1a8b9b21cd0f.jpg?v=1751122120","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/passing-9780486437132","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}