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Title	:	Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Author	:	Ntozake Shange
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 224 pages
Published	:	January 15th 1996 by Picador (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Poetry. Cultural. African American. Feminism. Womens. Literature

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

Ntozake Shange

Paperback | Pages: 224 pages

Rating: 4.13 | 2905 Users | 178 Reviews

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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.

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Original Title:	Sassafrass
ISBN:	0312140916 (ISBN13: 9780312140915)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.13 From 2905 Users | 178 Reviews

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Streets in Charleston wind the way old ladies fingers crochet as they unravel the memories of their girlhoods. One thing about a Charlestonian female is her way with little things. The delicacy of her manner. The force of ritual in her daily undertakings. So what is most ordinary is made extraordinary. What is hard seems simple.- Ntozake Shange; Sassafrass, Cypress & IndigoWhat a beautiful, lyrical book. A tribute to black women trying to find themselves, black women who are trying to live

I listened to this in two parts because my original library hold expired. It was a hard read for me. Im not super into poetry and its verybpoetic. Im not fond of writing about music or art and this is basically all about those things. But the stories of the sisters (and their mother) were interesting and it certainly was worth the time it took to read.

I really didn't like it. Very disappointed. I liked the beginning with Indigo and then it went downhill. The rest of the novel focused more on Sassafrass and Cyprus. I most definatly won't be picking up one of Ms. Shange's novels again.

There is nothing that I can say that fully expresses how effing fantastic this book is. All the stars. Immediate re-read. And again and again. If I could I would read it everyday forever. I guess I can but that's obsessive. Obsessing will also ruin the magic of the writing. And the writing is magical. I've been dying to read "something beautiful." This book is everything that I needed it to be. I'd recommend it to: People who also read and liked For Colored Girls but wanted so much more. People

3.5 stars. Sensual, with some beautiful imagery and fantastical details as the author describes the lives of three sisters, Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo, as they figure who they are and what they want, against a backdrop of the 60s: racism, civil rights, misogyny, etc. I liked the way food figured in the story, as well as family rituals and finding ones own direction.

Part of the reason I'm giving this book 3 stars is because I just can't get into magical realism. I struggled through "One Hundred Years of Solitude" for a week before giving up on it in frustration with only 100 pages left. I liked "Like Water for Chocolate" but the magic still felt awkward and arbitrary. My distaste for that genre is odd, since I enjoy fantasy books so much."Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo" confused me at least 1/4 of the time and I frequently had to go back and re-read

This book fits into the category of not-sure-how-to-rate. Ntozake Shange has the ability to sing with her writing, although I'm not that big on writing with that much dialect. However, even the use of dialect can be defended since without it the reader wouldn't have had half the cultural experience. The cultural experience is what makes this book work because there isn't much of a story that hasn't been told before. And that sums up why I'm giving this book 2.5 stars. As much as I loved viewing