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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo / a novel by Ntozake Shange.
Van Pelt Library PS3569.H3324 S2 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shange, Ntozake.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--South Carolina--Charleston--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- South Carolina--Charleston.
- Sisters--United States--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- United States.
- African American women--Fiction.
- African American women.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador USA, 1996.
- Summary:
- Ntokaze Shange's Most Beloved Novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three "colored girls", three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina: Sassafrass, the oldest, a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college, living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weave a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams; Cypress, the dancer, who leaves home to find new ways of moving and easing the contractions of her soul; Indigo, the youngest, still a child of Charleston - "too much of the south in her" - who lives in poetry, can talk to her dolls, and has a great gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world.
- ISBN:
- 0312140916
- OCLC:
- 33361267
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