The Third Generation

by Chester Himes

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a powerful autobiographical novel about a black family tortured by colorism as it strives to live up to the myth of the Black middle class in white, post-war America

Lillian Taylor has three sons, a comfortable house, and a well-liked husband who teaches at a local college. But her contempt for her family's dark complexion infects this bright world until it begins to come undone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593686683
• ISBN13: 9780593686683
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 416 Pages