Some Sing, Some Cry
of Ntozake Shange, Ifa Bayeza
Description
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 lives for themselves as fortune-teller and seamstress. Dora will marry, the Mayfield line will grow, and we will follow them on a 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 blazing ahead.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 568 pages
- Publisher St. Martin's Press
- Publication Date September 14th 2010
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780312198992
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Charleston, South Carolina (United States)']
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