Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
By: by Ntozake Shange.
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: African American women -- Fiction; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Sisters -- Fiction; Charleston (S.C.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Sassafrass, Cypress, and Indigo
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.