Title: Such sweet thunder
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.
Subjects: Jazz musicians, Americans, World War, 1939-1945, Young men, African American men, Fiction, African Americans, African American soldiers, African americans, fiction, Children's fiction, African American boys, African American families, African American neighborhoods, City and town life, Nineteen twenties, Nineteen thirties, New York Times reviewed, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Musicians, fiction, France, fiction, Kansas, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, historical, general
Places: France, Kansas City (Kan.)