Literary Fiction

Quicksand

by Nella Larsen

A biracial woman in 1920s America searches for belonging across cities and continents, finding herself unable to settle in either Black or white worlds. Larsen's Harlem Renaissance portrait of restlessness, desire, and the exhausting work of existing between categories.

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