Passing (Penguin Classics)

Nella Larsen's powerful, thrilling, and tragic tale about the fluidity of racial identity that continues to resonate today.

A New York Times Editors’ Choice.

Now a major motion picture starring Tessa Thompson and Alexander Skarsgård One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Clare Kendry is living on the edge.

Light-skinned, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a racist white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past after deciding to “pass” as a white woman.