Sassafrass Cypress & Indigo: A Novel

Ntozake Shanges beloved Sassafrass Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston South Carolina. Sassafrass the oldest is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college she is now 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 leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo the youngest is still a child of Charleston-too much of the south in her-who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world. Shanges rich and wondrous story of womanhood art and passionately-lived lives is written with such exquisite care and beauty that anybody can relate to her message (The New York Times).