Everything in the movie — and nearly everything in the novel — passes through a double lens of romanticism.
Felicia Rosshandler's novel Passing Through Havana is published by St Martin's Press and is available on Kindle.
The novel passed the signal sales mark of 1m copies worldwide some years ago, and I've stopped keeping track.
In Ms. Larsen's Harlem Renaissance-era novel "Passing" a biracial woman poses as white, marries a racist and meets a tragic end.
"Everything in the movie — and nearly everything in the novel — passes through a double lens of romanticism," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times in May.
She read Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs: "No novel passes the Nietzsche test if you can't stand reading it even once".
James Lasdun's new novel passes from cold war East Germany to the modern United States without so much as a refuelling stop amid the pre-occupations of Great Britain.
Take the painful case of Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance whose 1929 novel, "Passing," has just been reissued in the Random House Modern Library series.
Her second novel, Passing (1929), centres on two light-skinned women, one of whom, Irene, marries a black man and lives in Harlem, while the other, Clare, marries a white man but cannot reject her black cultural ties.
