No. 29 · The Well-Read 30PassingNella Larsen1929
Fiction · 1929
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A chance reunion pulls Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry into a tense orbit of race, marriage, desire, secrecy, and social danger.
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Its short length hides extraordinary ambiguity: nearly every gesture can mean more than one thing.
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- desire
- secrecy
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