Such Sweet Thunder Publisher / Institute of Modern Art From the treasury of the

From the treasury of the Leiden University Library

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lightweight

this highly visual

seamlessly weaving the personal and the political

Such Sweet Thunder Publisher / Institute of Modern Art From the treasury of theSuch Sweet Thunder is a majestic and unforgettable child's eye view of Jim Crow America from a powerful chronicler of American family life. Amerigo Jones grows up poor but surrounded by love in Jazz Age Kansas City. A precocious young dreamer, he longs for the college education that his parents could not have. But as Amerigo begins to venture further away from his doting mother and father, he encounters a world marred by prejudice, where amid the