Passing
By: Nella Larsen ; with an introduction and notes by Thadious M. Davis.
Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction.; Racially mixed people -- Fiction.; Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Passing (Identity) -- Fiction.; Female friendship -- Fiction.; Human skin color -- Fiction.; Married women -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The beautiful, elegant, and ambitious Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. A light-skinned African American married to a white man unaware of her racial heritage, Clare has severed all ties to her past to become part of white, middle-class society. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, as light-skinned as Clare, has chosen to remain within the African-American community.

Married to a successful doctor and the mother of two boys, Irene refuses to acknowledge the racism she grew up with and that continues to set limits on her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others and the secret fears they have buried within themselves.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.