Passing is about Irene and Clare, two light-skinned Black women who are both capable of passing as White. Irene only does so when it’s convenient, like getting into a fancy hotel, but Clare is fully immersed in her life as the wife of a racist White man who does not know that Clare is biracial. The two women were childhood friends, but in her late teens, Clare disappears from the neighborhood, and the novel begins when the two incidentally cross paths 12 years later. It’s a […]
Well-Crafted but Emotionally Distant
Passing by Nella Larsen
