{"product_id":"passing-book-nella-larsen-9781420956139","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":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49566157734161,"sku":"CIN1420956132G","price":5.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49891839443217,"sku":"CIN1420956132VG","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51025318314257,"sku":"NIN9781420956139","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1420956132.jpg?v=1750756565","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/passing-book-nella-larsen-9781420956139","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}