by Thadious M. Davis, Nella Larsen
I wish I could believe anything that transpires after chapter 21.
WHY: I loved her novelette "Passing."
Does not get off to a great start; the writing is pretty wince-y in the early going:"Helga ducked her head under the covers in a vain attempt to shut out what she knew would fill the pregnant silence - the sharp sarcastic voice of the dormitory matron. It came."But she gets over it pretty quick. You...
Like most people in their early twenties, Helga Crane is filled with the desire to be more than she is, to be more entranced by the world than she is, and to see something more of life than her teaching position in the rural South offers. The cure, then, is to dismiss, one after another, the stops ...
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