![]() ![]() Indigo, Cypress, and Sassafrass grow up with a proud, articulate weaver for a Mama-so, though Mama would like solid, conventional lives for her girls, the sisters are more artistically, dreamily inclined. And this poetic first novel-vignettes from the lives of three Charleston-born sisters-reflects those strengths and weaknesses, though it offers no sequences to rival the best monologues in for colored girls. ![]() As anyone familiar with Shange's poetry and playwrighting knows, hers is a rich but limited talent-warmly comic or gorgeously evocative one moment, shrilly didactic or swoonily overblown the next. ![]()
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