Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo - Ntozake Shange

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Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, Ntozake Shange, 1977, United States, NOVEL

"...Their originality is present in every part of their lives; even the time-honored transition into womanhood provides Indigo with an opportunity for expression: "Indigo, I don't want to hear another word about it," her mama says, "I'm not setting the table with my Sunday china for fifteen dolls who got their period today."...Ntozake Shange plunges headlong into the passions of her characters and blends the powerful rhythmic patterns of poetry, music, and speech into her prose, pressing between the pages recipes, herbal remedies, choreography, letters, and dreams, like bright leaves to be preserved..."

(K.B., p. 339)

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