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Mama Day by Gloria Naylor · Booklabria

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Mama Day

MagicFamily life

Mama Day

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First published: 1988
Editions: 14 in 2 languages

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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.

Subjects: Magic
Family life
African Americans
African American women
20th Century
Islands
Set in: New York
Chicago
Southern States
South Carolina
Time: 1986

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14 in 2 languages

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