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Detention

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A story about forced pretense and a life borrowed from someone else.

America during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Gatsby. Women dream of a life of luxury. Men gaze at striking beauties. And few realize that behind their dazzling appearance lies an incredible secret. The fate of the heroine, with African-American roots, would seem to convince us that we can pretend to fit in in any society, because the key is an unshakable conviction that the world belongs to us. But what if no amount of achievement can erase the longing for what we absorbed with our mother's milk? For a past life, for true friends. And all the benefits of social pretense—passing—cannot replace the simple happiness of being ourselves.

This dramatic book, written in 1929, is considered an American classic and is included in university reading lists.
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