This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

SASSAFRASS, CYPRESS & INDIGO. Copyright © 1982 by Ntozake Shange. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the St. Martin’s Press edition as follows:

Shange, Ntozake.

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo : a novel / by Ntozake Shange.—1st ed.

       p. cm.

  ISBN 0-312-69971-9

  I. Title.

PS3569.H3324 S2 1982

813'.54—dc19

82005565

ISBN 978-0-312-54124-8 (Griffin edition)

First published in the United States by St. Martin’s Press

First St. Martin’s Griffin Edition: October 2010

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