Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Dark Romance —The Washington Post

—The Washington Post

The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence that will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children

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In By the Fire We Carry

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Dark Romance —The Washington PostLangston 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,