Synopsis: Ntokaze Shange's 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.
While the author is best known for her great choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/when the Rainbow is Enuf, I've always been a fan of hers because of Sassafrass...
Originally published: 1982
