Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Staff Pick: Some Sing, Some Cry

Some Sing, Some Cry
By: Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza

In its riveting dramatization of the promise of emancipation, the brutality of Reconstruction, the baroque cruelty of the Jim Crow era, all the way to the possibilities of the digital age, this bittersweet tale of seven generations in a family of mixed blood and musical genius weaves together essential historical facts and profound emotional truths.
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