- Fiction, African American women, Afro-Americans, gerogia sea islands
Mama day is about many things. It's the story of Ophelia and George two black American's and how they fall in love in try to reconcile their differences of upbringing and culture. It's about the dying culture of Gullah on the Georgia sea islands and it is even a reworking of Shakespeare's Tempest.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Gloria Naylor
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields, Hutchinson, Vintage
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780816146925
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Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950 – September 28, 2016) was an American novelist, known for novels including *The Women of Brewster Place* (1982), *Linden Hills* (1985) and *Mama Day* (1988). **Source**: [Gloria Naylor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Naylor) on Wikipedia.
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