Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo : : a Novel

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Call Number: Fiction / Shange, Ntozake, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Shange, Ntozake
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Westgate Branch

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Shange, Ntozake	4-week checkout	Due 05-24-2024
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After growing up with their mama in Charleston, South Carolina, three sisters find themselves divided across the country. 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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Feels like I should like it more than I do submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 23, 2022, 11:18pm I feel like I should like this more than I did. It has great characters, a good structure, and is vastly more show than tell. The girls’ lives are interesting and intertwined in ways that keep the story cohesive.

And yet… it still just didn’t capture my attention completely. I think a piece is that the lives the two older girls live aren’t lives I would want, but that still doesn’t feel like a full enough reason.

My experience is 3/5, but it honestly probably deserves higher. Maybe I’m just reading it at the wrong moment to engage with it.