Some Sing, Some Cry
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Some Sing, Some Cry

A Novel

  1. 588 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Some Sing, Some Cry

A Novel

About this book

"This bittersweet tale of 7 generations in a family . . . weaves together essential historical facts and profound emotional truths. . . . glorious in its scope." — Booklist (starred)

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 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 blazing ahead.

"Lyrical . . . Think of it as Roots with a treble clef—a confident, lively account of love, art and what falls between." — Kirkus Reviews

"Vibrant. . . . Shange and Bayeza at their poetic best." — Essence

"Solid gold . . . a lyrical and epic novel." — Ebony

"A sweeping African-American saga. . . . a provocative fictional history." –P ublishers Weekly

"A richly detailed and boldly colored account of one family's experience in slavery and its legacies for the generations that followed. . . . both moving and arresting." –Annette Gordon-Reed, author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner The Hemingses of Monticello

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Information

Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780312198992
eBook ISBN
9781429959353
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Chapter 1
  6. Chapter 2
  7. Chapter 3
  8. Chapter 4
  9. Chapter 5
  10. Chapter 6
  11. Chapter 7
  12. Chapter 8
  13. Chapter 9
  14. Chapter 10
  15. Chapter 11
  16. Chapter 12
  17. Chapter 13
  18. Chapter 14
  19. Chapter 15
  20. Chapter 16
  21. Chapter 17
  22. Chapter 18
  23. Chapter 19
  24. Chapter 20
  25. Chapter 21
  26. Chapter 22
  27. Chapter 23
  28. Chapter 24
  29. Chapter 25
  30. Chapter 26
  31. Chapter 27
  32. Chapter 28
  33. Coda
  34. A Note on the Vernacular
  35. A Note on the Composition
  36. A Bibliographical Note
  37. Acknowledgments

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