What is the setting of Quicksand and Passing by Nella Larsen?

Both Quicksand and Passing are set in the 1920s. In Quicksand, Naxos (an anagram for "Saxon" according to the editor) is located in Georgia. Helga notes the trees and walkways and the sunshine there, as opposed to Chicago, where the streets are dirty; the weather is bad, and Helga feels the most lost and lonely. The windy, gray weather and garbage blowing in the streets does not make Chicago appealing. New York, and in particular, Harlem, is more colorful, busy and interesting, and this is where Helga spends the majority of her time in the story. She holds down a job here, lives in a very upscale, beautiful home with her friend Anne, and finds friends and a social life within the black culture of Harlem. Helga eventually is disgusted by the constant racial consciousness in Harlem and decides to go to Copenhagen to live with her aunt and uncle. Copenhagen, at least in the social world of her relatives, is white, clean, calm and sedate, with a high degree of refinement and civility.