Quicksand: A Harlem Renaissance Novel of Race, Identity, and Restless Desire

Quicksand is Nella Larsen's first novel and one of the essential works of the Harlem Renaissance, a searching portrait of race, gender, class, desire, and spiritual dislocation in the modern world. Helga Crane is intelligent, restless, refined, and unable to find a place where she can live honestly within the expectations placed upon her. From the Black educational world of Naxos to Chicago, Harlem, Copenhagen, and the rural American South, Helga moves through societies that alternately exo...