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Quicksand (Modern Library Torchbearers) staff favorites From a legendary Emmy Award–winningA 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