
In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
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The way it explores characters and two sides of it and also doesn’t explicitly explain what’s exactly going on. You can just read it from Irene’s perspective, her anxiousness, jealousy and all. Is it all just in her mind or what she thinks about Clare’s action and sudden attraction towards her society is all true? This is not just about black and white. It’s much more than that. Loved the way it’s left all ambiguous. You get the sense of every characters without much explaining explicitly. Also Brian’s character change immediately he meets Clare. He had a bad image about her initially. The equation between her and Clare is also not too perfect. I thought initially it was getting into some beautiful affair but other time it seemed Clare (Who is passing as a white and convinced enough whites including racist husband that she’s not coloured) was trying to get back to her society, wanting…