Mama Day, Gloria Naylor
Mama Day, Gloria Naylor
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Mama Day

Author: Gloria Naylor

Narrator: Anonymous

Unabridged: 11 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/04/2008

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

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 will use her ancient knowledge of herbal medicine and her judicious but dangerous use of magical powers in this bitter struggle.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia on July 15, 2014

For me, Naylor does the type of magical realism that I can understand. She brings in elements of country lore and mysticalism mixes it with real world stoytelling. When people believe in magic strong and hard through generations, then there is something very real that develops at out it. Also, of co......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on September 07, 2010

Every August I read this book from cover to cover. Island magic, the bonds of family, and the power of the past haunt this book. This is the first year that I truly understood why George needed to bring back his hands to Mama Day in the end. It's that refusal to let go, to fight for what you love, an......more

Goodreads review by Laura on May 06, 2007

Wow. I could not put this book down -- started out a bit piecy and confusing, but as the plot progressed I found myself reading with one eye open as I fell asleep at night just to soak in more of the story. It's told in the first-person point of view of three different characters and I found it espe......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on April 12, 2020

Re-read 11/25/19-4/12/20 Re-read for book club 7/4- /16 Read 7/23-27/14: I'm sitting here, at a loss for what to say about this book. Because anything I can express in words would just not be enough to convey what this book means and how it has affected me. Wow.......more