nic_renee3 's review for:

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

4.0

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I've never read anything quite like "for colored girls..." and I'm so happy that it has finally made the transition from "to read" to "read." Shange is a wordsmith. It comes across as a more nuanced, beautiful, and heartbreaking version of Cell-Block Tango. The use of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) throughout lends an authenticity to the choreopoem that she presents. It's representative of some of the struggles that WOC have faced and continued to face though it has been a while since the work's inception. I don't know that I have read anything more honest and deeply personal in my life.

Warning: "a nite with beau willie brown" will break your heart.