From Philadelphia's genteel society comes a daring tale of a young woman who discovers she can "pass." Angela Murray leaves her family behind to taste forbidden freedoms in New York's art world. But as she builds a glittering new life among the white elite, she learns that the price of playing plum bun may be higher than she imagined.

In Jessie Redmon Fauset's second novel, readers will find themselves swept from quiet Philadelphia parlors to Greenwich Village's bohemian haunts and Harlem's brilliant cultural scene. This thoroughly modern story asks what we will sacrifice for success—and whether we can ever truly escape who we are. By the literary editor of The Crisis magazine and author of There Is Confusion.