Quicksand
by Nella Larsen
189 pages~3 hrs
“Belonging is a luxury she can't afford, and a trap she can't escape.”
From the jazz-soaked streets of Harlem to the elite circles of Copenhagen, Helga Crane is a woman desperately searching for a place to call home. In this 1920s masterpiece of identity and longing, every attempt to find freedom reveals a new layer of the social traps waiting to pull her down.
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