# 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: 978-02-4157-374-7
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2022-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. Clare Kendry, elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she reunites with childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to confront the secret fears they have buried within themselves. A taut exploration of race and gender, Passing is one of the Harlem Renaissance's greatest works. 'A tragic story rooted in inescapable facts of American life' The New York Times