Sassafrass Cypress & Indigo
Sassafrass Cypress & Indigo
Author: Ntozake Shange
Desc: 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.