Mama Day

By Gloria Naylor

Subjects: Great-aunts, South carolina, fiction, Fiction, family life, general, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Independence in women, African American women, Large type books, 20th century, Afro-Americans, African American fiction, Shamans, 1000blackgirlbooks, Fiction, african american & black, general, African American families, Magic, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, gerogia sea islands, Gullah, Geechee, Islands, Ficton

Description: 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.