Quicksand

Helga Crane aspires to be more than she is to experience the world more deeply. As a result she ignores her hometown of Chicago New Yorks Harlem and even Copenhagen. She also misses out on chances to be a part of a larger family to marry and to find true love. What is always lurking in this absolutely excellent work is how much Helgas malaise is defined by the background of 1920s American racial segregation and how much is - paradoxically - of her own doing... Living in a society with so many unsolved issues injustice hypocrisy and violence may very easily feel like wading in quicksand.