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