start Nella Larsen's Passing today
why I picked this novel, plus a sentence-by-sentence close reading of the first paragraph
Dear friend,
I have something to confess. I originally had Passing slated for next spring.
But when I plucked my heavily annotated copy off the shelf and started reading…I decided to hell with waiting! This book is too good!
So, that’s why we’re going to read it together — in just two weeks — starting right now.
This 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, one of the …
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