4-6: Sherman Alexie, Ntozake Shange

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Alexie, Sherman. Flight.

in short: Flight chronicles the (very literal) spiritual journey of a half-Indian boy, Zits, struggling through the foster care system.
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Shange, Ntozake. for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf.

in short: A highly successful choreopoem from the '70s, Shange's most well-known work focuses on the lives, loves, and tragedies of Afican-American women.

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Shange, Ntozake. nappy edges.

in short: When one opens nappy edges to the title page, a good thing to notice is that the title of this book of poetry is footnoted with a four line poem. Shange says about nappy edges:

the roots of your hair/ what
what turns back when we sweat, run,
make love, dance, get afraid, get
happy: the tell-tale sign of living/

which is a far more eloquent and concise summary of this book of poems than any I could give.

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