Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo / a novel by Ntozake Shange.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shange, Ntozake.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--South Carolina--Charleston--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Sisters--United States--Fiction.

Sisters.

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

United States.

South Carolina--Charleston.

Charleston (S.C.)--Fiction.

Charleston (S.C.).

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

221 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Uncorrected Proof.

Other Title:

Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, [1982]

Summary:

After growing up with their mama in Charleston, South Carolina, three sisters find themselves divided across the country. 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.

Notes:

Book description on first leaf.

OCLC:

906052663