Some Sing Some Cry

Some Sing Some Cry - A Novel by Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza ISBN-13: 9780312198992 ISBN-10: 031219899X Publication Date: 9/14/2010 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Hardcover 6.4 x 9.55 inches, 568 pages Award-winning author of "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and her sister", award-winning playwright of The Ballad of Emmett Till, achieve nothing less than a modern classic with this epic, universal story of the Mayfield family. — Opening dramatically at a sprawling rice plantation just off Georgia's coast, the recently emancipated Elizabeth Mayfield says her goodbyes to Sea Island before fleeing for the prospect of a free life in Charleston. With her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow, she will carve out lives for them in the bustling port city as a seamstress and fortune-teller. Ma Bette, as she is later called, becomes matriarch and fierce protector as she shapes, supports, and leads her children and theirs through trials unimaginable. Eudora will marry; the Mayfield line will grow; and listeners will be taken on an astonishing tour through the watershed events of American history as experienced by one incredibly strong and musically-gifted family. From Recontruction to both World Wars, from the Harlem Renaissance to Vietnam, Some Sing, Some Cry brings to life a monumental story of one family?s history and of America?s history, of the warmth of home and the shatter of heartbreak, of an unforgettable past and a brighter future, blazing ahead.