# Quicksand

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- Book: [Quicksand](https://www.bookquiver.com/nella-larsen/quicksand) ([Quicksand.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nella-larsen/quicksand.md))
- Authors: [Nella Larsen](https://www.bookquiver.com/nella-larsen)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-127-1
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2002-01-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but...