Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwright Ifa Bayeza achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this epic story of the Mayfield family.
There, they carve out lives for themselv.
With her granddaughter, Eudora, in tow, she heads to Charleston.
Opening dramatically at Sweet Tamarind, a rice and cotton plantation on an island off South Carolina\'s coast, we watch as recently emancipated Bette Mayfield says her goodbyes before fleeing for the mainland.
Award-winning writer Ntozake Shange and real-life sister, award-winning playwright Ifa Bayeza achieve nothing less than a modern classic in this epic story of the Mayfield family