Betsey Brown Study Guide consists of approx. 97 pages of summaries and analysis on Betsey Brown by Ntozake Shange. Browse the literature study guide below:
This story begins in a middle-class neighborhood in St. Louis in the fall of 1959. From the moment we meet the precocious, passionate and saucy yet sensitive title character, thirteen-year-old Betsey Brown, we know she feels "different" from her family: the oldest of four children, she has staked out the secrets spaces of the house where she can watch the sunrise in peace or just keep herself apart from the hubbub of the house. (
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