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Narrated by:
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Tessa Thompson
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By:
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Nella Larsen
Light-skinned Black woman Irene Redfield encounters an old childhood friend - Clare - who is now "passing" as a White woman. Clare is married to a racist White man, who doesn't know she has African American blood. In spite of the danger of being found out by her husband and society at large, she finds herself helplessly drawn to Irene's world....
Passing is a fascinating listening experience on many simultaneous levels.
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The story, lush and complex, is titled for one of the character's act of passing, or pretending to be white when in reality she is Black. Clare obtains some status and class for her subterfuge but must always be wary of being discovered.
Clare's misleading act is a worry of her friend Irene but it is Clare's bold insertion of herself into Irene's life that is also distressing. Irene feels endangered by Clare's intrusions in more than one way.
The narrator of this book, Tessa Thompson, plays Irene in the screen version of the story.
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