Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Gothic a magnetic tension builds between

a magnetic tension builds between her and Jasper—dark

Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra

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and the cost of holding on to your dreams

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Gothic a magnetic tension builds betweenLangston Hughes's debut novel, a moving portrait of African American family life in 1930s Kansas, newly reissued for Union Square & Co.'s Herald Classics line. Originally published in 1930, Not Without Laughter follows Sandy Rogers as a boy living in rural Kansas to his arrival in Chicago as a young man, set against a backdrop of poverty, racial segregation, and the onset of World War I. Orbiting Sandy are a host of vividly realized family members,