Length5h 13m
About this audiobook
Helga Crane is a mixed-race teacher who struggles to find her identity in a world of racial crisis in the 1920s America. She is the daughter of a Danish mother, who died when she was an adolescent, and a West Indian father, who is absent. While teaching in Naxos, Helga suffers from social angst as she is discontented with the social uplift philosophy delivered by a white preacher. She moves to Harlem where she becomes the secretary to a refined, but often hypocritical, black middle-class woman who is obsessed with the "race problem", which urges her into another escape as she visits her aunt in Copenhagen. Driven by the search for racial identity Helga rejects intimate relationships with every man she encounters at each destination. She is looking for more than how to integrate her mixed ancestry. Quicksand explores both cross-cultural and interracial themes and throughout the book Helga expresses complex feelings about what she and her friends consider genetic differences between races.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length5 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 3, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1One
14Fourteen
2Two
15Fifteen
3Three
16Sixteen
4Four
17Seventeen
5Five
18Eighteen
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6Six
19Nineteen
7Seven
20Twenty
8Eight
21Twenty-one
9Nine
22Twenty-two
10Ten
23Twenty-three
11Eleven
24Twenty-four
12Twelve
25Twenty-five
13Thirteen
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