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A quick read because it is short and simple, it is nonetheless timely and topical.
The life story of mixed-race Helga Crane who lives on the edges of either the black Harlem or European white communities until she makes
A choice that seals her fate. Many of the racial questions and quandaries outlined in the slim volume persist today and the book was written
In the early half of the 1900's. This would be an excellent addition to 11th grade Language Arts courses to be taught after "The Great Gatsby"
Which has certainly been over used in past decades.


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Quicksand Penguin TwentiethCentury Classics Nella Larsen Thadious M Davis Books Reviews

Incredibly dislikable central character. And hard to determine very clearly view narrator would have us take of her. Generally disappointing product of that extraordinary period, the Harlem Renaissance. Though have to admit something somewhat compelling about the self-hatred of this "mixed race" young woman.
Excellent book! Nella does it again! I ordered this after reading passing,and this is another fly on the wall view of being Black during the Harlem Renaissance. Fantastic and Bravo!
Helga was a thoroughly detestable character in my opinion; either that or schizophrenic. Materialistic. Despite an incomplete education and almost no skills or money, she lived off of people, used them, reviled them and discarded them. Pretentious yet self-loathing. Ugh.
This was clearly a difficult story for Larsen to write at the time she wrote it in the late 20's. It was well crafted, and emotionally evocative, as a deep relationship between two opposites (in every way but gender) begins to build and simmer under the surface of antagonism. Very cleverly set up, This book, as does its characters, holds layer after layer of inner conflict and passion. No one is as she seems, and none loses her instinct for self-preservation, even as addiction for the 'other' grows and chokes out the life of 'normalcy'.

It seems somehow fitting that Larsen's next book did not find a publisher, and that this story is her last of record. It is a huge story, set in what proved a huge decade, amidst the rennaisance of the arts in Harlem. I sensed throughout that although the author was an adult woman, the story was told by an insecure child who had taken a deep breath, and now was braving everything in order to to "tell'.

A posthumous 'brava' to Ms. Larsen. You dug deep and you moved the ground a little with every page.

I finished the book with the distinct feeling that writing this book had wrung every drop from its author, That it cost her dearly to speak from her heart, for this story has the aura of the confessional about it
There are parts of this tale that feel so familiar. Helga's struggle to straddle two worlds, to reconcile her parents relationship, their relationship to and with her is so real. Each time she is rejected she rejects herself in vicious ways. I honestly didn't recall most of the story, it's been twenty years since I read but I have to say......I really hate that ending.
Excellent, as relevant in 2017 as it was when it was written. Deals not only with racial issues but with gender and class issues as well. Powerful and should he read in offer skipping ahead as some readers do would dexst

Excellent as relevant in 2017 as when it was written. Deals with not only racial issues but with class and gender issues as well. Should be read in the order it was written, for jumping ahead as some readers do would destroy not only the considerable suspense but the integrity of the characterization necessary to understand the climax and the choices the protagonist makes. It is quite complex but nevertheless a cautionary tale, written in very direct yet beautiful and sometimes rather poetic prose. Our society is just now becoming enlightened enough to plumb the depths of this novel.
Contextually, I can understand the importance of this novel as documentation. The style, though, didn't flow. I will readily admit I am not a writer, but I read 4 or 5 books a week and the best novels flow--you don't begin reading a sentence and wonder at the end of it what actually was the thing being described. (In this book, the beautiful, infallible heroine mostly.)
A quick read because it is short and simple, it is nonetheless timely and topical.
The life story of mixed-race Helga Crane who lives on the edges of either the black Harlem or European white communities until she makes
A choice that seals her fate. Many of the racial questions and quandaries outlined in the slim volume persist today and the book was written
In the early half of the 1900's. This would be an excellent addition to 11th grade Language Arts courses to be taught after "The Great Gatsby"
Which has certainly been over used in past decades.