{"id":44526,"date":"2016-06-07T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T14:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44526"},"modified":"2017-03-19T01:17:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T01:17:48","slug":"the-gilded-years-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44526","title":{"rendered":"The Gilded Years, A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gilded Years, A Novel<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Washington Square Press<\/a> (an imprint of Simon & Schuster<\/a>)
\n2016-06-07
\n384 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781501110450
\neBook ISBN: 9781501110467<\/p>\n

Karin Tanabe<\/strong><\/a>
\nWashington, D.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Passing<\/a><\/em> meets The House of Mirth<\/a><\/em> in this \u201cutterly captivating\u201d (Kathleen Grissom<\/a>, New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of The Kitchen House<\/em>) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings<\/a>, the first black student to attend Vassar<\/a>, who successfully passed as white<\/a>\u2014until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.<\/p>\n

Since childhood, Anita Hemmings has longed to attend the country\u2019s most exclusive school for women, Vassar College<\/a>. Now, a bright, beautiful senior in the class of 1897, she is hiding a secret that would have banned her from admission: Anita is the only African-American student ever to attend Vassar. With her olive complexion and dark hair, this daughter of a janitor and descendant of slaves has successfully passed as white, but now finds herself rooming with Louise \u201cLottie\u201d Taylor, the scion of one of New York\u2019s<\/a> most prominent families.<\/p>\n

Though Anita has kept herself at a distance from her classmates, Lottie\u2019s sphere of influence is inescapable, her energy irresistible, and the two become fast friends. Pulled into her elite world, Anita learns what it\u2019s like to be treated as a wealthy, educated white woman\u2014the person everyone believes her to be\u2014and even finds herself in a heady romance with a moneyed Harvard student. It\u2019s only when Lottie becomes infatuated with Anita\u2019s brother, Frederick, whose skin is almost as light as his sister\u2019s, that the situation becomes particularly perilous. And as Anita\u2019s college graduation looms, those closest to her will be the ones to dangerously threaten her secret.<\/p>\n

Set against the vibrant backdrop of the Gilded Age<\/a>, an era when old money traditions collided with modern ideas, Tanabe has written an unputdownable<\/a> and emotionally compelling story of hope, sacrifice, and betrayal\u2014and a gripping account of how one woman dared to risk everything for the chance at a better life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Passing” meets “The House of Mirth: in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of “The Kitchen House”) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white\u2014until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,6462,25],"tags":[9894,22218,22219,2711,10517,13798],"class_list":["post-44526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-passing-2","category-women","tag-anita-florence-hemmings","tag-anita-hemmings","tag-karin-tanabe","tag-new-york","tag-simon-schuster","tag-washington-square-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52604,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44526\/revisions\/52604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}