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Mama Day (1989)
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. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.
by Gloria Naylor
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Gloria Naylor was an African-American novelist whose most popular work, The Women of Brewster Place, was made into a 1984 film starring Oprah Winfrey. Naylor won the National Book Award for first fiction in 1983 for The Women of Brewster Place. Her subsequent novels include Linden Hills, Mama Day and Bailey’s Cafe.
In addition to her novels, Naylor has written essays and screenplays, as well as the stage adaptation of Bailey’s Cafe. Naylor has also founded One Way Productions, an independent film company, and is involved in a literacy program in the Bronx. A native New Yorker, Gloria Naylor is a graduate of Brooklyn College and Yale University.
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