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Quicksand by Nella Larsen5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The New York Times Book Review proclaimed it had more. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of biracial Helga Crane, who is unable to escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Masterfully plotted and infinitely illuminating, Quicksand and Passing are two of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance. Nella Larsens first published novel, appeared in 1928 and won the Harmon Foundations bronze medal. ![]() 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. In Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, a biracial woman by the name of Helga Crane faces a number of trials and tribulations that challenge her social and cultural identity. In Passing, two childhood friends reconnect later in life. ![]() 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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