Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent\, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriv ing neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her chil dhood friend Clare Kendry\, who is similarly light-skinned\, Irene discove rs that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to he r past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband.
\nCl are finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease and security with her Bla ck identity and longs for the community (and\, increasingly\, the woman) s he lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous sec ret\, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every par t of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929\, Larsen's brillian t examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass\," is as t imely as ever.
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