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Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
A Tale Unasked by Lady Nijo
Lady Nijo


In small-town Kansas at the turn of the twentieth century, Sandy Rogers is a young Black boy growing up surrounded by family. A groundbreaking work, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as a gifted novelist as well as a beloved poet.

Lady Nijo’s A Tale Unasked is the last, and arguably the finest, among classical Japanese literature’s famous “women’s diaries.” Meredith McKinney’s superb translation breathes new life into Lady Nijo’s fascinating diaries, which survived her era in a single copy and were rediscovered only in the 1940s.

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