Passing

Irene Redfield is a Black woman living a wealthy life with her husband and children in the affluent neighbourhood of 1920s Harlem. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is just as light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing as a white woman – even hiding the truth from her racist husband. Clare is drawn to Irene’s sense of ease with her black identity and longs for the community she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself into every part of Irene’s safe existence. First published in 1929, Larsen’s extraordinary examination of the various ways in which we all seek to “pass,” is as timely as ever.

Format: Kindle Edition, Audiobook, Paperback

Paperback: 176 Pages

Language: English