Some Sing, Some Cry

by Ntozake Shange, Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza, Ifa Bayeza

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Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwright Ifa Bayeza achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this epic story of the Mayfield family. Opening dramatically at Sweet Tamarind, a rice and cotton plantation on an island off South Carolina's coast, we watch as recently emancipated Bette Mayfield says her goodbyes before fleeing for the mainland. With her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow, she heads to Charleston. There, they carve out livesfor themselves as fortune-teller and seamstress. Dora will marry, the Mayfield line will grow, and we will follow them on an journey through the watershed events of America's troubled, vibrant history--from Reconstruction to both World Wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam and the modern day. Shange and Bayeza give us a monumental story of a family and of America, of songs and why we have to sing them, of home and of heartbreak, of the past and of the future, bright and blazingahead.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:031219899X

ISBN13:9780312198992

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:St. Martin's Press

Length:568 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Related Subjects

Family Dynamics The Civil Rights Movement African American Contemporary Fiction Literary Literature & Fiction

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