Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"Naylor has a dazzling sense of humour, rich comic observation and that indefinable quality we call 'art.'" Rita Mae Brown
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"This is a wonderful novel, full of spirit and sass and wisdom, and completely realized." Washington Post
Synopsis
A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book resonates with genuine excitement ... a big, strong, admirable novel" (New York Times Book Review). 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.
About the Author
Gloria Naylor was born in New York City in 1950, where she grew up and still lives. She received her B.A. in English from Brooklyn College and her M.A. in Afro-American studies from Yale University. She has taught writing and literature at George Washington University, New York University, Boston University, and Cornell University.
She is the author of The Women of Brewster Place, which won the American Book Award for first fiction in 1983; Linden Hills, published in 1985; and Bailey's Cafe.