Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Gothic and doesn’t find her wanting

and doesn’t find her wanting or unwhole

and love through seven generations of Black women

who will sit on the throne of Khetara

And survive

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Gothic and doesn’t find her wantingLangston 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,