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February 1988

  • Mama Day (Vintage Contemporaries)by Gloria Naylor
    4.67 avg ratings, 3 reviewspublished February 1, 1988

    A fascinating novel that reworks elements of Shakespeare's The Tempest. On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces.