Passing
(OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen)
Published:
Recorded Books, Inc. 2012
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 810L
Status:
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Description
Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga. Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly lightskinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past—even hiding the truth from her racist husband. Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity and longs for the community (and, increasingly, the woman) she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself—and her deception—into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever.
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Format:
OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, OverDrive Listen
Edition:
Unabridged
Street Date:
03/01/2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781464032905
Lexile code:
HL: High-Low
Lexile measure:
810
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APA Citation (style guide)
Nella Larsen. (2012). Passing. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nella Larsen. 2012. Passing. Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Nella Larsen, Passing. Recorded Books, Inc, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Nella Larsen. Passing. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2012.
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