num_pages: 224
description: Ntokaze Shange's Most Beloved Novel, Sassafrass, Cypress &amp; 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.
language: English
title: Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
titlecomplete: Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
genres: Fiction, Poetry, African American Literature, Womens, Audiobook, Literature, Feminism, Novels, Race, African American
ratings_count: 3704
places: Charleston, South Carolina, South Carolina, Los Angeles, California
publisher: St. Martins Press