Passing

Praise for Nella Larsen and Passing

It is a tragic story rooted in inescapable facts of American life: that whiteness conferred an almost universal unearned advantage, and that loyalty to a Black racial identity was not only an act of pride but also one of courage. The New York Times

[Larsen s novels] open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable. Alice Walker

One of the best novels of the year. W.E.B. DuBois, The Crisis Magazine, Issue 36 (July 1929)