Sport of the Gods
Author: first_name: Paul Laurence
last_name: Dunbar
Language: English
Year: 1902

The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. 
Forced to leave the South, a family falls apart amid the harsh realities of Northern inner city life in this 1902 examination of the forces that extinguish the dreams of African Americans. (Summary from Wikipedia)