{"product_id":"passing-dover-books-on-literature-drama","title":"Passing (Dover Books on Literature \u0026 Drama)","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.\" — The Saturday Review of Literature\u003cbr\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 Passing offers fascinating psychological insights into issues of race and gender.","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47730973343970,"sku":"MTO-DOVER-2026-04-23-3.58-875","price":27.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_211_X3ie1hUX8.jpg?v=1776981439","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/passing-dover-books-on-literature-drama","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}