Quicksand

Name: Quicksand
Brand: Author's Republic
Availability: InStock
Author: Nella Larsen
ISBN: 9798875109898

Author: Nella Larsen

Narrator: Christine Glassman

Unabridged: 4 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 02/26/2024

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction, Literary Collections, African American & Black Nonfiction

Synopsis

Nella Larsen's "Quicksand" paints a poignant portrait of Helga Crane, a young woman grappling with her mixed racial heritage in the 1920s. Caught between societal expectations and her yearning for identity, Helga navigates different settings – the segregated South, bustling Harlem, and even Denmark – searching for a place to belong. Yet, societal constraints and her own internal struggles leave her feeling trapped, like sinking in quicksand. Through Helga's journey, Larsen explores themes of race, class, and the search for self in a world fraught with prejudice and limited options.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fabian on January 17, 2019

Not as complete or as beautiful as "Passing", though most of the same themes are kept intact. That in a conservative environment nothing changes is absolutely correct--will the times ever change? Looking at the news, at national happenings, the answer is a nice, dark, heavy no. There are some similar......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 27, 2021

Just fantastic. Nella Larsen's writing is incredible.......more

Goodreads review by Zanna on March 10, 2016

Helga Crane seems awkward and capricious, as introverts (like me) often do, at odds with a world better shaped to the needs of extroverts. But Helga's struggle to find a place for herself, she feels, is caused by her heritage, visible and invisible. Biracial, black, she is rejected by her white fami......more