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Mama Day
Mama Day
Author: Gloria Naylor
Miranda Day, known as Mama Day, is the elderly matriarch of Willow Springs, a small sea island off the southeast coast of the United States. Mama Day finds herself pitted in mortal combat with dark forces that threaten the body and soul of her beloved great-niece, Cocoa, who has gone "mainside" and married an urban northerner. Mama Day...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780679721819
ISBN-10: 0679721819
Publication Date: 4/23/1989
Pages: 336
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  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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4.4 stars, based on 55 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Excellent. This book will stay with me forever.
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This is a really fantastic book. It will make you believe in magic. It is contemporary magic realism, in that the world of the book is absolutely the real world and yet, you believe the magic. It's a love story/folk tale that reminds us why we tell folk tales and that fairy tales in their original form are mostly tragic. And yet, you are uplifted.
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Very mystical and sad but hopeful!
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Very intense and off-beat novel by the author of Linden Hills and Bailey's Cafe about witchcraft and folk remedies in South Carolina.

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