Today's audiobook and crochet selection is #quicksandbook #quicksandnovel by #nellalarsen I believe this was published in 1928 before #passingnovel which is more well known. This title is available for purchase: as an ebook from #kindle starting at $0.99 as well as #googlebooks starting at $1.99. #audibles has two audiobook versions. The first has a running time of 4hr 45mins, is narrated by Christine Glassman, was released 3/2017 $10.46 and the ☆second has a running time of 5hrs, is narrated by Alice Johnson, was released 7/2017 $8.11☆ This title is available to borrow from #hoopla This is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the real events of Ms Larsen's life. This is in the classic #tragicmulatto style and she handles it well but it's annoying and tiresome. I'm fairly certain the feelings and opinions shared by Helga are Ms Larsen's own. Some of the action is dramatized autobiography. Her read of The Tuskegee Institute (Naxos) under Booker T Washington is valid then and today. As well as her read of polite, educated black society who hated white people but copied their styles, manners and customs while disparaging poorer and uneducated blacks. The problem is at many times Helga feels very much the same. She's equally contemptuous of upper/middle class blacks as she is of lower class blacks. At the same time she seems to deeply desire to be white while recognizing that she's being fetishized by whites. So mostly the tired tragic mulatto trope.
