# Passing

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- Book: [Passing](https://www.bookquiver.com/nella-larsen/passing) ([Passing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nella-larsen/passing.md))
- Authors: [Nella Larsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/nella-larsen)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4147-271-2
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2020-10-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Fair, elegant, and ambitious, Clare is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage and has severed all ties to her past. Clare's childhood friend, Irene, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American community, but refuses to acknowledge the racism that continues to constrict her family's happiness. A chance encounter forces both women to confront the lies they have told others - and the secret fears they have buried within themselves. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.