The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Langston Hughes

The Sweet Flypaper of Life

Langston Hughes with Roy DeCarava

112 pages first pub 1955 (editions)

nonfiction art poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
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Hughes’s heart-warming description of Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s is seen through the eyes of one grandmother, Sister Mary Bradley. As she guides the reader through the lives of those around her, we imagine the babies born, families i...

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