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Mama Day

Gloria Naylor

1988312 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1988
first published
  • 1988Hutchinson · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780091737238
  • 1988Ticknor & Fields · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780899197166
  • 1989G.K. Hall · 487 pages · ENGISBN 9780816146925
  • 1990Vintage · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780099605805
  • 1993Vintage Books · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9780679721819
  • 2017Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. · 312 pages · ENGISBN 9781504043151
  • 2022Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780349016153
  • 1993Random House Trade · ENGISBN 9780394256252

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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PlaceIsland
ThemesFamily
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