ntozake shange quote on the homepage is everything !! [sassafrass, cypress & indigo is one of my all-time favorites, and i read for colored girls... when i was in high school. i'm just starting some sing, some cry and ugh! her work means so much to me]

I got to experience for colored girls in my undergrad and did this huge project for it to end up completely falling in love with it. I love Shange so I had to put her here. Also, I've been wanting to start some of her other work, so I'll definitely start with those two that you mentioned next!

I stopped reading firefly wedding before getting to all that stuff that you mentoined, now i'm really glad i did.. the first couple of chapters were solid but it really felt odd how things progressed with shinpei. maybe it was the translation i was reading but at one point i really felt like he was talking to her like a therapist instead of like the actual person he's supposed to be.

@4cornersofpluto sorry for the very late reply but same! At first I thought my translation was bad but then I read the official translations from Comikey and it was very much the same in its jarring pacing. It felt like the big moments simply happened because they had to. And I don't want to go on a tangent about the dialogue cause that'll make me rant but I full on agree and it gets worse later on.