Ntozake Shange,Ifa Bayeza
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 theÂ  Mayfield family. Opening dramatically atÂ  Sweet Tamarind, a rice and cotton plantation on an island off South Carolina's coast, we watch asÂ 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 throughÂ the watershed events of America's troubled, vibrant historyâ€”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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Some Sing, Some Cry