Such Sweet Thunder: A NovelSet in Kansas City, Missouri, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and ’30s, Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic evocation of childhood and parental love told through the eyes of a remarkable boy, Amerigo Jones. This vivid portrait of an era marred by racial segregation and relentless, daily injustices is nonetheless rendered with love and longing for a time and place that was enriched by a vibrant, burgeoning, and widely influential African American culture and a fierce feeling for family and community. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A-MEN agin alley Amerigo Aunt Nancy Aunt Rose Babe blue Boom corner Cosima crawdads cried Crippa dark Derby didn door dress empty house eyes face feet filled Frederick Douglass front room Garrison School gaze girl gittin glance goin gonna grinned hair hand head hear heard house shoes I'm lyin joker Jones kitchen laughed li'l light lips little Thornton looked Mary Ann Mer'go middle room Miss Allie Mae Miss Chapman Miss Sadie Mister momma mouth niggah nothin oughtta porch pretty Rutherford exclaimed Santa Claus shoes smile somethin sound stared stars steps stood Street streetcar suddenly Sunday talkin tall tell things thought Tom Johnson Tommy Toodle-lum took trees trembling turned Turner usta Viola asked voice walked wasn What's whispered window woman yard Yeah Yes'm Yessir