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Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel
by Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza

    Publication Date: Sep 14, 2010
    List Price: $26.99
    Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9780312198992
    Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
    Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

    Description of Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel by Ntozake Shange and 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 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.