The House Behind the Cedars (Penguin Classics)

The House Behind the Cedars (Penguin Classics)

An early masterwork among American literary treatments of miscegenation, Chesnuttâ€™s story is of two young African Americans who decide to pass for white in order to claim their share of the American dream.

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