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Mama DayMama Day

Mama Day1988

Gloria Naylor

3.8(9)on Hardcover

About this book

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.

Details

First published
1988
OL Work ID
OL134426W

Subjects

FictionAfrican American womenAfro-Americansgerogia sea islandsGullahGeecheeAfrican American fictionMagic20th centuryGreat-auntsFictonIslandsIndependence in womenAfrican Americans1000blackgirlbooksLarge type booksFiction, family life, generalSouth carolina, fiction

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