Finding Langston

After his mother's death in 1946, eleven-year-old Langston and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his loneliness abates when he discovers the local library and learns about the poet Langston Hughes, who penned verses about the African American experience. And then Langston's father reveals a secret...