Quicksand
By: Nella Larsen
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Blacksburg, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9781604599930
Subjects: Racially mixed people; Young women; Danish American women; African American women; Fiction
Description: Born to an indifferent white mother and an absent black father, and scorned for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence.