Passing (Penguin Classics)

  Title: Passing (Penguin Classics) 📙 Click Here 📙 👉 Buy Now 👈 Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity continues to resonate today. A  New York Times  Editors’ Choice. Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård   Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to “pass” as a white woman. Clare’s childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clare’s risky decision to engage in racial masquerade for personal and societal gain. After frequenting African American-centric gatherings together in Harlem, Clare’s interest in Irene turns into a homoerotic longing for Irene’s black identity that she abandoned and can ne...