Passing BOTY_2025 National Humanities Award-winning historian Jacquelyn

National Humanities Award-winning historian Jacquelyn Dowd Hall follows the divergent paths of the Lumpkin sisters

and friendship from the author of Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners

where she led a team investigating how AI is changing our lives

forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures

Passing BOTY_2025 National Humanities Award-winning historian JacquelynIrene Redfield is a light skinned Black woman living in Harlem, New York, with her husband and two sons. After a chance encounter, Irene resumes contact with a childhood friend, Clare Kendry. Though Clare is also Black, she is even more fair skinned than Irene and passes as a white womanto the point that shes married to a deeply racist white man who has no knowledge of her race. As the two womens lives intertwine with fascination and repulsion, their