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Not Without Laughter: A Rediscovered Book

Not Without Laughter: A Rediscovered Book

Hughes, Langston

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ISBN13: 9798903000524
Publisher: Rediscovered Books
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

First published in 1930, Not Without Laughter is Langston Hughes's quietly powerful coming-of-age novel set in a small Midwestern town in the early twentieth century. Through the eyes of Sandy Rogers, Hughes traces the intimate rhythms of Black family life-work, migration, faith, ambition, disappointment, and resilience-during a period of profound social change. Unlike the fiery rhetoric often associated with the Harlem Renaissance, this novel is restrained, observant, and deeply humane. Hughes writes with clarity and sympathy, allowing everyday moments to carry emotional weight: a grandmother's moral authority, a mother's exhaustion, the lure of distant cities, and the fragile hopes of youth. Long overshadowed by Hughes's poetry, Not Without Laughter stands today as one of the most authentic literary portraits of African American life between Reconstruction and the Great Migration. It is a novel of endurance rather than protest, offering insight through lived experience rather than polemic.

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