Quicksand by Nella Larsen Paperback Book 9780241652657

The overlooked American writer who blows apart modern thinking on race TelegraphBorn to a Danish mother and a West Indian father Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself as a mixedrace woman in the Deep South of 1920s America She moves to Harlem and then to Copenhagen in her search for a sense of belonging and acceptance but wherever she goes she cannot escape the perceptions and prejudices of others One of the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance Nella Larsens semiautobiographical first novel is a powerful portrayal of one womans fractured inner life