“Other Voices, Other Rooms” is Truman Capote’s first novel, which made him famous overnight.
After his mother’s death, thirteen-year-old Joe l goes to his father—whom he has never seen in his life. Traveling a long distance from New Orleans to Alabama, the boy discovers a huge, run-down mansion in the middle of a vast plantation. He is met by his stepmother and half-sisters. When Joe l asks again and again where his father is, no one can give him a sensible answer.