Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0312699719 / Publisher: St. Martin's Press, August 1982
Three Black sisters from Charleston, North Carolina, seek to find their ways--Sassafrass through art in Los Angeles, Cypress through dance, and Indigo, the youngest, by staying home and seeing her world's obvious magic
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Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now 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, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston-"too much of the south in her"-who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. Shange's rich and wondrous story of womanhood, art, and passionately-lived lives is written "with such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message" (The New York Times).
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