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Join us to discuss PASSING by Nella Larsen. For a copy of the book and the Zoom link, contact Mary Tompson at mtompson@cooklib.org. DROP IN
Irene Redfield is living an affluent life with her husband and children in the thriving African American enclave of Harlem in the 1920s--until she runs into her childhood friend, Clare Kendry. Clare has been passing for a white woman, married to a racist man who does not know about his wife's real identity. Irene is both fascinated and repulsed by Clare's secret, and in turn, Clare yearns for Irene's sense of ease and security with her Black identity. Clare begins to insert herself and her deception into every part of Irene's stable existence, and their complex reunion sets off a chain of events that dynamically alters both women forever. From NoveList
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