Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Quicksand (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow

as mysterious and memorable

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son

one in five people in the United States lives with a disability

New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education

Soon she's meeting his best friends

Publisher: Dial Press

A distraction from his anger and pain

attacks the girl's corpse

heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences

which are so numerous it makes me dizzy to recall them

she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity

"Funny throughout