Quicksand (Modern Library Torchbearers) staff favorites As a young boss and

As a young boss and often the only Black woman in the room

she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body

or refunds

and stone-ground grits

Quicksand (Modern Library Torchbearers) staff favorites As a young boss andA classic novel of identity, sexuality, religion, and race by the author of Passing, hailed as an original and hugely insightful writer by The New York Timeswith an introduction by Asali Solomon, author of The Days of Afrekete Quicksand . . . open[s] up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read [it] years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable.Alice Walker Born to a white Danish mother and a Black