Torchbearers
Modern Library
June 2002
On Sale: May 28, 2002
304 pages ISBN: 0375758135 EAN: 9780375758133 Kindle: B0012D1DGY Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
An exciting repackage of Nella Larsen’s classic novel,
Passing, about two women crossing the color line,
which firmly established her prominence among women writers
of the Harlem Renaissance, along with a new
introduction written by Kaitlyn Greenidge as part of the
Modern Library’s “Torchbearers” series.
Irene Redfield, the novel’s protagonist, is a woman with an
enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent
physician, share a comfortable Harlem town house with their
sons. Her work arranging charity balls that gather Harlem’s
elite creates a sense of purpose and respectability for
Irene. But her hold on this world begins to slip the day she
encounters Clare Kendry, a childhood friend with whom she
had lost touch. Clare—light-skinned, beautiful, and
charming—tells Irene how, after her father’s death, she left
behind the black neighborhood of her adolescence and began
passing for white, hiding her true identity from everyone,
including her racist husband. As Clare begins inserting
herself into Irene’s life, Irene is thrown into a panic,
terrified of the consequences of Clare’s dangerous behavior.
And when Clare witnesses the vibrancy and energy of the
community she left behind, her burning desire to come back
threatens to shatter her careful deception.
Brilliantly plotted and elegantly written, Passing
offers a gripping psychological portrait of emotional extremity.
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