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Summer Bingo - an Author of Color.
Thank you to Sara and Chelsey on the Novel Pairings Podcast (episode 16) for putting this book - and Nella Larsen, a new-to-me author - on my radar (and my sister's). They suggested that this book would make a great replacement for The Great Gatsby in the canon, and I'm all in for that. The Great Gatsby was one of my favorite books (was) for years, and I welcome this replacement - written by a Black woman experiencing the Harlem Renaissance. Her "American" exper ...more
Thank you to Sara and Chelsey on the Novel Pairings Podcast (episode 16) for putting this book - and Nella Larsen, a new-to-me author - on my radar (and my sister's). They suggested that this book would make a great replacement for The Great Gatsby in the canon, and I'm all in for that. The Great Gatsby was one of my favorite books (was) for years, and I welcome this replacement - written by a Black woman experiencing the Harlem Renaissance. Her "American" exper ...more
It's a classic. I'm glad I finally read it. I don't really have much to say about it. It probably would have had more of an impact on me if I had not read (and loved) The Vanishing Half first.
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This would be a great book club choice. The idea of “passing” isn’t one that I’ve thought or read about. Lots to think about!
Feb 17, 2018
K
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really liked it
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Shelves:
20th-century-american,
african-american
Sep 09, 2020
Brooke Williams
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it was amazing
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Shelves:
2020-reads,
2020-book-bingo
