Such Sweet Thunder

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Such 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 surround ed 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 bustle and the beauty, violence and injustice stalk the streets. Show more