{"product_id":"passing-nella-larsen-paperback-1","title":"Passing -- Nella Larsen, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\"Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.\" -- Alice Walker\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\n\"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\n\n\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.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Nella Larsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dover Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 10\/26\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.64\" H x 5.52\" L x 0.22\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780486437132\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50560015171888,"sku":"9780486437132","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780486437132.jpg?v=1774847751","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/passing-nella-larsen-paperback-1","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}