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2017 Read Harder Challenge #7 - Read a book published between 1900 and 1950
This book started out strong, but I found the ending so boring that it dropped from a five-star book to a three-star one.
In Passing, two women meet on the rooftop of a hotel in 1920s Chicago, recognize each other, and begin a conversation. Both are black women "passing" as white, one (the protagonist) just for the convenience of enjoying a cool drink on a hot day, the other because she has fully left black society, having married a white man unaware of her ancestry. The protagonist, Irene, is un ...more
In Passing, two women meet on the rooftop of a hotel in 1920s Chicago, recognize each other, and begin a conversation. Both are black women "passing" as white, one (the protagonist) just for the convenience of enjoying a cool drink on a hot day, the other because she has fully left black society, having married a white man unaware of her ancestry. The protagonist, Irene, is un ...more
I wish this was a longer form novel, as I feel there was a lot that could have been further explored - but this was really interesting & thought provoking, esp reading it in a different time period & still seeing similarities.
