{"product_id":"9780486437132","title":"Passing","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"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":47025811128560,"sku":"9780486437132","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486437132_p0.jpg?v=1763709113","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486437132","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}