Returning Voices
The House Behind the Cedars
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA man who can pass as white chooses, deliberately and at real personal cost, to live openly as Black instead, and the book follows everyone in his family who makes a different choice. Chesnutt uses one household to examine every possible answer to the same impossible question. No single choice in it is treated as simply right or simply wrong.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 4 hr 40 min
- Where to find it
- On the Returning Voices shelves
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #472. In the public domain in the United States.