{"product_id":"passing-2","title":"Passing","description":"\"Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.\" -- Alice Walker\u003cbr\u003e\"A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Review of Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMarried to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem's vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been \"passing for white.\" An important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Nella Larsen was the first African-American woman to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Her fictional portraits of women seeking their identities through a fog of racial confusion were informed by her own Danish-West Indian parentage, and \u003ci\u003ePassing\u003c\/i\u003e offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50868131725544,"sku":"9780486437132","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_c32c8a41-21e3-4d7f-986a-daaa33c38747.jpg?v=1790358703","url":"https:\/\/shop.kuumba.app\/products\/passing-2","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}