Such Sweet Thunder
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Zoland Books
Published: June 13, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781581952179
Subjects: Kansas City (Kansas); 20th Century American Literature; African American Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - Historical; Historical - General; Literary; Fiction / Literary; African American boys; African American families; African Americans
First sentence: On a cold winter morning shortly before dawn in the year 1944, the stars shone brightly, but were now and again obscured by drifts of heavy clouds.
Description: Set 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.