Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo Ntozake Shange

By:

Shange, Ntozake [VerfasserIn]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: London Minerva 1996Edition: ReissuedDescription: 223 p 20 cmISBN:

0749390352
9780749390358

Subject(s):

african diaspora feminist fiction

DDC classification:

813.54

Other classification:

18.06
17.97
7,26
ang

Summary: Sassafrass, Cypress and 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	EIS Library Main Library	English Fiction Adolescent-Adult	EFA SL SHA S252	Available		L0013463

Sassafrass, Cypress and 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.

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