Liliane

Ntozake Shange

first published 1994 Penguin Random House, 1996

In Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter, Ntozake Shange brings the strands of memories, dreams, and expectations of a young black woman's life into ours. Through the voices of her childhood friends, Roxie, Lollie, and Bernadette, we encounter the last moments of legal segregation in Mississippi and the beginnings of class war within the black community of Queens. The voices of her lovers, Victor-Jesus, Zoom, Thayer...

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Liliane edition · 2011 · Picador · 9781429913515
Liliane paperback · 2011 · St. Martin's Griffin · 288 pages · 9780312644109
Liliane edition · 1996 · Penguin Random House · 9780749395254
LILIANE edition · 1995 · Methuen Publishing Ltd · 304 pages · 9780413694409
Liliane paperback · 1995 · Picador · 304 pages · 9780312135591
Liliane hardcover · 1994 · St. Martin's Press · 288 pages

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