About this title: In the Deep South old Mama Day, descended from a legendary slave, has intimations of the past and sometimes, as when her newly-married grand-niece Cocoa comes home to visit, disturbing presentiments of the future. The author also wrote "The Women of Brewster Place" and "Linden Hills".
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Description: Very Good. 0679721819 This trade sized paperback book is in REAL GOOD SHAPE! ! FIRST EDITION! THERE IS NO creasing of the spine and some very minor signs of wear from reading--nothing major at all! SMOKE FREE HOME! Do not settle for worn, torn, throwaways. Pay a few pennies more for a book that looks a wrinkle or two away from near new! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780679721819ISBN:0679721819
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
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"This is the first Gloria Naylor book I read & it has to be the greatest. Everything i learned about the African American female literary tradition is captured in this novel. It has strong elements of Black Folk Culture which drive an amazing love story. The characters are complex and simple. The family narratives transcends space and time. The figurative meets the literal. Lust, love, anguish, duty, surrend, patience, trust, and mystery marry into one lovely story."
"Naylor had my five enthusiastic stars when I was about half way through this book. The second half, however, dropped a star. I loved the juxtaposition of life and death, and the portrait of the two as inextricably and mysteriously entwined; I loved the intergenerational give-and-take; I loved the style of narration and flow of the prose, the back and forth between Willow Springs dialect and hardened New York-ese. The characters were beautifully and compassionately drawn, doing justice to Naylor's story and adept use of language. In the end, however, the story was a bit too - oh, for lack of a better word - weird, and I grew weary of all the bickering between Cocoa and George. Still, I'd recommend it, and I'll search out more by Gloria Naylor."
"I'm still processing this book. I may be processing forever. I think it's one of those stories that will continue to haunt me for years to come, thoughts of a slow fall or lavender water popping into my mind when I'm doing the laundry, or protecting Ophelia from the rain.
I don't know what to think about this book because I don't know that it even made me think. But it surely made me feel. I feel sadness. I feel gratitude. I feel love. I feel sentimental and heartbroken over things I shouldn't even think about. I don't want to start a new book because I don't want this one to leave my heart yet. But I don't think it will.
It leaves so much to ponder still. There aren't any answers, and there's so much detail that your mind continues to go back to this or that scene, thinking about what that phrase or this action meant. It also made me dream that Sam had died, which was unsettling. And my dreams dictate how I feel for the day, so I've been a little off lately.
I love that you know from the start what's going to happen at the end of the story, but you spend the whole book learning why you should care.
I suppose I'll save the rest of my thoughts for our book club. It'll be nice to have a little distance from it when we discuss, I suppose. Doesn't necessarily mean I'll be thinking any more clearly, but perhaps my heart will make some sense of it..."
"Gloria Naylor? Who is she, I asked? I was reading a book by another author, who continuously incorporated the names of books and their authors being read by her main character. And there was Gloria Naylor! So, next trip to the library, I looked up the shelf where Gloria Naylor resides . . . and there was Mama Day. Not the usual theme I look for in a book, but once I got started I couldn't put it down! An intriguing storyline from the deep south (my home growing up) which incorporates the naturalistic healing arts of the generations rooted in the plantations plus mysticism and magic. The character development and the use of the characters to tell the story was fascinating and well done. I definitely recommend this author and this book. I'll be visiting Naylor's shelf again."
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