📱 eBook en inglés SUCH SWEET THUNDER

Luminous... a vibrant portrait of African-American life at the nations crossroadsNew York Times Book Review

A rousing, inspired work, keenly observed and soulful... the novel sparkles with life, soaring with the loose flow of a jazzy improvisationBoston Globe

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 bustle and the beauty, violence and injustice stalk the streets.

Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic and unforgettable childs-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 bustle and the beauty, violence and injustice stalk the streets. Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic and unforgettable childs-eye-view of Jim Crow America from a powerful chronicler of American family life.