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Not Without Laughter
LANGSTON HUGHES
JASMINE MANS
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Summary
Langston Hughes's debut novel, a moving portrait of African American family life in 1930s Kansas, newly reissued for Union Square & Co.’s Herald Classics line.
Originally published in 1930, Not Without Laughter follows Sandy Rogers as a boy living in rural Kansas to his arrival in Chicago as a young man, set against a backdrop of poverty, racial segregation, and the onset of World War I. Orbiting Sandy are a host of vividly realized family members, including his mother Annjee, a housekeeper for a wealthy white family; his irresponsible father Jimboy, who plays guitar and is constantly in search of work; his aunts, blues-singing Aunt Harriet and social-climbing Aunt Tempy; and his pious, strong-willed grandmother Hager, who holds the generations together.
Partly inspired by Langston Hughes’s early life in the Midwest, Not Without Laughter is the debut novel of the literary giant, a sweeping and elegiac family drama that traces Black life in the early twentieth century, an important setting in the history of a racially divided America.
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$19.99
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Category:
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Author:
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LANGSTON HUGHES
JASMINE MANS
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Title:
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Not Without Laughter
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Release date:
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03 February 2026
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UNION SQUARE PRESS
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Subject:
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LITTERATURE DIVERSES ORIGINES
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ISBN:
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9781454964797 (14549647911)
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Renaud-Bray Reference:
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21866464
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Item nb:
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4506272
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SANTOS, JOSÉ RODRIGUES DOS |
$19.95
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Not Without Laughter
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HUGHES, LANGSTON*MANS, JASMINE
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UNION SQUARE PRESS
2026
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