Books by Ntozake Shange
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Betsey Brown
by Ntozake Shange - 207 pages - 1986-12-31 - St Martins Pr
This is a unique and vividly told novel about a girl named Betsey Brown, an African American seventh-grader growing up in St. Louis, Missouri. While rendering a complete portrait of this girl, author Ntozake Shange also profiles her friends, her family, her home, her school,…
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Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo
by Ntozake Shange - 224 pages - 1983-10-01 - St Martins Pr
*Sassafrass, Cypress and 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…
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For Colored Girsl who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf
by Ntozake Shange - 64 pages - 0000-00-00 - Macmillian Publishing
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The Love Space Demands: A Continuing Saga
by Ntozake Shange - 64 pages - 1991-04-01 - St Martins Pr
Songs of love and urban tragedy from one of the preeminent African-American writers of our time. Shange's poems express the need to be felt and heard, to be necessary. In this love space, we all wear our desires, t-cells, and hearts on our sleeves and experience all that comes…