``Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.`` Alice Walker ``A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel.`` The Saturday Review of Literature Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem\'s vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been ``Passing for white.`. ``Absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.`` Alice Walker ``A work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel.`` The Saturday Review of Literature Married to a successful physician and prominently ensconced in Harlem\'s vibrant society of the 1920s, Irene Redfield leads a charmed existence-until she is shaken out of it by a chance encounter with a childhood friend who has been ``Passing for white.`
