Sassafrass Cypress Indigo Author:Ntozake Shange Ntozake Shange's beloved Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo is the story of three sisters and their mother from Charleston, South Carolina. — Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother before her. Having gone north to college, she is now living with other artists in Los Angeles and trying to weav... more »e a life out of her work, her man, her memories and dreams. Cypress, the dancer, leaves home to find new ways of moving in the world. Indigo, the youngest, is still a child of Charleston -- "too much of the south in her" -- who lives in poetry and has the supreme gift of seeing the obvious magic of the world.« less