Passing [Modern Library Torchbearers]by Larsen, Nella 

Paperback(The Modern Library, 2019)

BTSB #: 543583 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 5.7 UG Lexile: 810 HL

Genres:

Subjects: African American women - Fiction Racially mixed people - Fiction Identity (Psychology) - Fiction Impostors and imposture - Fiction Human skin color - Fiction New York (N.Y.) - Fiction

Summary: Irene Redfield is living an affluent life with her husband and children in the thriving African American enclave of Harlem in the 1920s. That is, until she runs into her childhood friend, Clare Kendry. Since they last saw each other, Clare, who is similarly light-skinned, has been "passing" for a white woman, married to a racist man who does not know about his wife's real identity, which she has chosen to hide from the rest of the world. Irene is both fascinated and repulsed by Clare's secret.