Not Without Laughter: A Novel
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A moving depiction of African American family life, Not Without Laughter is the coming-of-age story of Sandy Rogers as he navigates growing up in a racially divided small town in Kansas. With a mother who works as a housekeeper for a rich white family and a musician father who travels the country in search of work, Sandy's family struggles against poverty and discrimination in a novel that "moves as swiftly as a jazz rhythm" ( The New York Times), rendering an indelible portrait of the Black experience in America in the years leading up to World War I.
"Langston Hughes is a titanic figure in 20th century American literature. . . . A powerful interpreter of the American experience." — The Philadelphia Inquirer
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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright, columnist, and social activist born in Joplin, Missouri. Known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes was an early innovator of the literary art form called jazz poetry.
