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Celebrate the BPL's centennial by reading some of the best books from the past 100 years. Our first featured book is Passing by Nella Larsen, the 1920s classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance.
Celebrate BPL's centennial by reading some of the best books from the past 100 years. Our first featured book is Passing by Nella Larsen, the 1920s classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance. Check out BPL's quarterly program guide and website for additional meeting dates and times to join us on a monthly journey to explore classics from each decade.
More about Passing by Nella Larsen:
Irene Redfield is a Black woman living an affluent, comfortable life with her husband and children in the thriving neighborhood of Harlem in the 1920s. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Clare Kendry, who is similarly light-skinned, Irene discovers that Clare has been passing for a white woman after severing ties to her past--even hiding the truth from her racist husband.
Clare finds herself drawn to Irene's sense of ease with her Black identity and longs for the community she lost. Irene is both riveted and repulsed by Clare and her dangerous secret, as Clare begins to insert herself--and her deception--into every part of Irene's stable existence. First published in 1929, Larsen's brilliant examination of the various ways in which we all seek to "pass," is as timely as ever. (Goodreads)
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Continue exploring the decades with us!
Learn more about April's book, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1930s) HERE
Learn more about May's book, The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (1940s) HERE
Bexley Public Library was founded in 1924 and first housed in Bexley High School, now Montrose Elementary School. The present building opened in 1929 and was designed by architects O.C. Miller and R.R. Reeves who drew upon French and Italian architecture from the 17th century for the design.
The library is located at 2411 East Main Street, at the intersection of East Main Street and Cassady Avenue. Parking is available in our parking lot on Euclaire Avenue and in front of the library on Main Street. Main Street is a No Parking Tow Zone from 4:00-6:00 p.m. weekdays.
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