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Quicksand

By Nella Larsen

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Helga Crane leaves her teaching post in the South and looks for a place to live on her own terms. Her travels take her through Harlem and Copenhagen, where people read her identity and appearance differently. Larsen follows the promises and costs of each move, allowing Helga’s dissatisfaction to remain complicated.

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Edition and subjects

Publisher
Collier Books
Edition date
1971
First published
1928