Passing Style:Paperback and between America's heartland and

and between America's heartland and its coasts

A Paperback Original

First published in the 1930s

viviendo una vida cualquiera

Passing Style:Paperback and between America's heartland andBy: Nella Larsen Clare Kendry is living on the edge. Light skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to pass as a white woman. Clares childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, and is simultaneously allured and repelled by Clares risky decision to engage in