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Clare Kendry leads a dangerous life. Fair, elegant, and ambitious, she is married to a white man unaware of her African American heritage, and has severed all ties to her past. Clare's childhood friend, Irene Redfield, just as light-skinned, has chosen to remain within the African American communityContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 160 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0142437271
- ISBN-13: 9780142437278
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Pub date: Feb 04, 2003
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Thomas A Roltsch 
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Two girls in the interbellum in the USA. Both could pass for white, but only one does. The consequence is giving up everything and everyone she knows, because her husband is a racist of the worst kind. She is flighty and sentimental though, and a hankering after her roots makes her look up her old f ... (continue)
Two girls in the interbellum in the USA. Both could pass for white, but only one does. The consequence is giving up everything and everyone she knows, because her husband is a racist of the worst kind. She is flighty and sentimental though, and a hankering after her roots makes her look up her old friend, who has a high position in elite black society. This is the most dangerous thing she could ever do, because what will happen if her husband finds out she is that Most Hated Being; a Negro?
Great book. The love-hate relationship of the two main characters, their jealousy and intimacy, and the way they both fit into their own world, makes for a deep and insightful novel.
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