Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, a novel, by Ntozake Shange
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, a novel, by Ntozake Shange
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fiction
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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
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by Ntozake Shange
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a novel
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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
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