Nella Larsens first novel tells the story of Helga Crane, a fictional character loosely based on Larsens own early life. Crane is the lovely and refined daughter of a Danish mother and a West Indian black father who abandons Helga and her mother soon after Helga is born. Unable to feel comfortable with any of her whiteskinned relatives, Helga lives in various places in America and visits Denmark in search of people among whom she feels at home. The work is a superb psychological study of a complicated and appealing woman, Helga Crane, who, like Larsen herself, is the product of a liaison between a black man and a white woman. In one sense, Quicksand might be called an odyssey however, instead of overcoming a series of obstacles and finally arriving at her native land, Larsens protagonist has a series of adventures, each of which ends in disappointment.

Binding: Paperback;136 pages; Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com; Classification: N/A; Weight: 330.92 g; Dimensions: N/A

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