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The house behind the cedars

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"The House Behind the Cedars tells of John and Lena Walden, mulatto siblings who pass for white in the postbellum American South. The drama that unfolds as they travel between black and white worlds constitutes a riveting portrait of the shifting and intractable nature of race in American life. This edition revitalizes a much-neglected masterpiece by one of our most important African-American writers."--Jacket.

Subjects: History
Mystery
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Suspense
Historical
Set in: United States
North Carolina
Southern States
Time: 1865-1877

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