VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem
Renaissance one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'She could
neither conform nor be happy in her unconformity' Nella Larsen wrote two novels in her
lifetime both of which are collected here. The first Quicksand follows a mixed-race woman
who runs from the fictional town of Naxos to Chicago to Harlem to Copenhagen. It becomes easy
for her to leave behind places but the discrimination she's running from is inescapable. In
Passing two childhood friends reconnect later in life. One slightly more light-skinned than
the other lives her life passing for a white person married to a flagrant racist while her
friend observes uneasily. Masterfully plotted and infinitely illuminating Quicksand and
Passing are two of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance. 'A beloved novel from the
Harlem Renaissance that follows the fraught relationship between two childhood friends one who
passes for white and one who chooses not to' Brit Bennett 'Absolutely absorbing fascinating
and indispensable' Alice Walker 'Buy the book' W. E. B. Du Bois
