{"product_id":"not-without-laughter-paperback-2","title":"Not Without Laughter - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2020 Reprint of the 1930 Edition. Hughes award-winning first novel, about a black boy's coming-of-age in a largely white Kansas town. When first published in 1930, \u003cem\u003eNot Without Laughter \u003c\/em\u003eestablished Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young African American boy in small-town Kansas, and of his family--his mother, Annjee, a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his irresponsible father, Jimboy, who plays the guitar and travels the country in search of employment; his strong-willed grandmother Hager, who clings to her faith; his Aunt Tempy, who marries a rich man; and his Aunt Harriet, who struggles to make it as a blues singer--Hughes gives the longings and lineaments of black life in the early twentieth century an important place in the history of racially divided America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101547598047,"sku":"9781684224777","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VzM1T0I4NlFrKzVhVVN5OXp0aXk0dz09.webp?v=1781071699","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/not-without-laughter-paperback-2","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}