Some Sing, Some Cry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Some Sing, Some Cry write by Ntozake Shange. This book was released on 2010-09-14. Some Sing, Some Cry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Groundbreaking and heartbreaking, this triumphant novel by two of America's most acclaimed storytellers follows a family of women from enslavement to the dawn of the twenty-first century. From Reconstruction to both world wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, from spirituals and arias to torch songs and the blues, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life the monumental story of one American family's journey from slavery into freedom, from country into city, from the past to the future, bright and blazing ahead. Real-life sisters, Ntozake Shange, award-winning author of for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Ifa Bayeza, award-winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this story of seven generations of women, and the men and music in their lives. Opening dramatically at a sprawling plantation just off the South Carolina coast, recently emancipated slave Bette Mayfield quickly says her goodbyes before fleeing for Charleston with her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow. She and Eudora carve out lives for themselves in the bustling port city as seamstress and fortune-teller. Eudora marries, the Mayfield lines grows and becomes an incredibly strong, musically gifted family, a family that is led, protected, and inspired by its women. Some Sing, Some Cry chronicles their astonishing passage through the watershed events of American history.
Some Sing, Some Cry
Some Sing, Some Cry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Some Sing, Some Cry write by Ntozake & Bayeza Shange (Ifa). This book was released on 2010. Some Sing, Some Cry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf
For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf write by Ntozake Shange. This book was released on 2010-11-02. For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The “extraordinary and wonderful” award-winning play in a new edition featuring an additional poem, production photos, and an introduction by Jesmyn Ward (The New York Times). From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century—and they continue to ring true in the 21st. First published in 1975, it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had”. This new edition celebrates the play’s enduring legacy with introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. It also features a poem not previously included in the text, and a selection of photos capturing the play’s evolution and reinvention.
Sing, Don't Cry
Sing, Don't Cry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sing, Don't Cry write by Angela Dominguez. This book was released on 2017-08-22. Sing, Don't Cry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Once a year, Abuelo comes from Mexico to visit his family. He brings his guitar, his music—and his memories. In this story inspired by the life of Apolinar Navarrete Diaz—author Angela Dominguez’s grandfather and a successful mariachi musician—Abuelo and his grandchildren sing through the bad times and the good. Lifting their voices and their spirits, they realize that true happiness comes from singing together.
The Birds of Opulence
The Birds of Opulence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Birds of Opulence write by Crystal Wilkinson. This book was released on 2016-03-18. The Birds of Opulence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, this book centers on several generations of women in a bucolic southern Black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness. The Goode-Brown family, led by matriarch and pillar of the community Minnie Mae, is plagued by old secrets and embarrassment over mental illness and illegitimacy. Meanwhile, single mother Francine Clark is haunted by her dead, lightning-struck husband and forced to fight against both the moral judgment of the community and her own rebellious daughter, Mona. The residents of Opulence struggle with vexing relationships to the land, to one another, and to their own sexuality. As the members of the youngest generation watch their mothers and grandmothers pass away, they live with the fear of going mad themselves and must fight to survive. The author offers up Opulence and its people in lush, poetic detail. It is a world of magic, conjuring, signs, and spells, but also of harsh realities that only love - and love that's handed down - can conquer.
