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Name: Mama Day

Author: Gloria Naylor
Year: 1988
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Popularity: 2.2
Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Fantasy
Culture: African-American

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ISBN:
9780679721819
0679721819
Winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award in 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.
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