piQuicksandi and iPassingi are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.--Alice Walkerbr br Discovering Nella Larsen is like finding lost money with no name on it. One can enjoy it with delight and share it without guilt. --Maya AngelouppA hugely influential and insightful writer. --iThe New York TimesippiiLarsen's heroines are complex, restless, figures, whose hungers and frustrations will haunt every sensitive reader. iQuicksandi and iPassingi are slender novels with huge themes. -- Sarah WatersppA tantalizing mix of moral fable and sensuous colorful narrative, exploring female sexuality and racial solidarity.-iWomen's Studies International ForumippRutgers' all-time bestselling book, Nella Larsen's novels iQuicksandi 1928 and iPassingi 1929 document the historical realities of Harlem in the 1920s and shed a bright light on the social worl