{"product_id":"passing-book-nella-larsen-9781022892675","title":"Passing","description":"Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable. -- Alice Walker\u003cbr\u003eA 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53186220425489,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53186223046929,"sku":"NIN9781022892675","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/passing-book-nella-larsen-9781022892675","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}