'The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race' Telegraph Born to a
Danish mother and a West Indian father Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself as a
mixed-race woman in the Deep South of 1920's America. She moves to Harlem and then to
Copenhagen in her search for a sense of belonging and acceptance but wherever she goes she
cannot escape the perceptions and prejudices of others. One of the finest works of the Harlem
Renaissance Nella Larsen's semi-autobiographical first novel is a powerful portrayal of one
woman's fractured inner life.
