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Summary: Magnificent!
Review: One of the last books that I read in my junior year of high school, Mama Day remains one of my favorite books. It is funny, mystical, and supernatural. But there is something more to Mama Day than what meets the eye. Mama Day is more than supernatural occurences. It is more than a clash of the generation gap and ideals. It is a story of the daily lives of an everyday people who are anything but. That is what makes Mama Day such a spellbinding novel and one that should be read by everyone.
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Summary: My favorite book of all time
Review: Read this, you will not be sorry. The intertwining of culture, mysticism, love, and family is amazing. This book is a work of art and I challenge everyone to look for George in the people in there lives. I know he is in mine.peace
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Summary: Intense and worth the effort.
Review: Reminiscent of the nonlinear narrative in Beloved but much easier to follow, Naylor's story of two elderly sisters and their grand-niece/granddaughter moves between the streets of NYC and the small island off the Carolina coast. Although I can't remember characters' names, certain moments of the text remain with me, such as Mama Day's poignant method of initiating connection with her sister by always calling out, "You there, Sister?" and her brutal showdown with Ruby, a jealous neighbor who dabbles in voodoo. Being the small-town farm girl that I am, I had a lot to learn from Mama Day. And every word was appreciated. I never grew bored, never grew tired. If we must have a "climatic moment" in the novel, then I guess it would be the grueling illness faced by Mama Day's grand-niece, which encapsulates all the tightly woven relationships among the novel's players. This book ends sadly, yes, but very satisfactorily.
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Summary: Naylor Helps Us Rejoice in Greeting the New "Day"
Review: Somewhat akin to the imagery and evocative language of Toni Morrison's "Beloved," Naylor's "Mama Day" twists small community folklore with a need and a desire to believe in the human spirit. By juxtaposing the interactions of a small population on the island of Willow Springs with the hustle and bustle of the impersonal scene of New York city, Naylor crafts heartbreakingly accurate depictions of a love between a man and a woman against the backdrop of a greater, and more powerful impetus: history. Naylor uses dueling narratives by speaking from the voices of Mama Day, the grand aunt and matriarch of our story, George, the New York native, orphaned engineer and Cocoa, Day's grand niece who is the unassuming protagonist of the whole tale. By framing her story with these three perspectives there is no detail which may be categorized as human frailty or human nobility which Naylor neglects. The story speaks to any heart, in any place, and any time. It would behoove everyone to read this book, I guarantee the reader will learn something important about his or herself.
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Summary: Interesting in more than one way!
Review: The book Mama Day was a very creative book. The sorcery that was represented in this book seemed to be old country knowledge. The main character Mama Day was full of wisdom because of all the things she encountered throughout her life. Gloria Naylor used many wonderful techniques in writing this book. This is an excellent Novel for anyone who enjoys a modern or contemporary book, or even a good love story. I wish that I could find out how Cocoa carried on with her life.
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Summary: read with song of solomon and their eyes were watching god
Review: the third time i read this book, i read it along with toni morrison's _song of solomon_ and zora neale hurston's _their eyes were watching god_. gloria naylor's novel stand up extremely well, even in such revered company. the thing that lifts this book from a well-told love story to a true contribution to (african-)American literature is the storytelling frame. However, the subtleties of who's talking, and to whom, became most clear and enjoyable to me after more than one reading. I think that the introductory section to this book, with naylor's vamp on 1823, and her veiled introduction of the two lovers is among the best-written pieces in contemporary literature. bravo! (and i don't award five stars often at all!)
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Summary: This is the best book I have ever read.
Review: This book is a look at the same story from two perspectives. It has a love story, a little voodoo, a little comedy, and a lot of drama. I read it as an assignment for a class, and have since passed it around to many of my friends who also have loved it. Gloria Naylor is one of the best writers of our time and she even outdoes herself with Mama Day.
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT AND ENCHANTING NOVEL!!!!!!
Review: THIS IS A BOOK THAT I TOOK MY CHANCES ON AND I WAS GLAD THAT I CHOSE IT. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS THAT I HAVE READ IN MY 19 YEARS OF LIFE. HERE AT COLLEGE I USUALLY DON'T HAVE TIME FOR OUTSIDE READING BUT NOW IT'S ONE OF MY #1 PRIORITIES. THIS IS A BOOK THAT YOU'LL PICK UP AND WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE MAGIC AND NATURAL DELIGHTS THAT THIS BOOK BROUGHT ABOUT.
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Summary: Everyone who apreciates a good story should read this book!
Review: This is the perfect book to curl up with on a rainy day
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Summary: Rest your Weary Soul a little While Longer
Review: This is the second Naylor book I ever read. I have now read them all. This book, in my opinion, along with Bailey's Cafe and to some extent Linden Hills put her in my trinity of greatest living writers, along with Morrison and Kingsolver. Willow Springs is a good place to go to die at peace. I hope I find such a place when it is my time. There were long stretches when, like the other two women on my "best list", I would be lost on that little island and the real world would be hundreds, if not thousands of miles away. I did not want to cross over that bridge into the mainland anymore than Mama Day or most of the other residents of Willow Springs. This is a book you want to spend the rest of your life in. But fear not, Gloria has a few more stories, so read it up and partake of the others, when you finish ALL of Gloria's books, then I recommend doing the same with Toni Morrison and Barbara Kingsolver. Like Morrison, Naylor weaves a magic, a spiritual, a mystic layer into her story that does not seem incredible in the least, in fact, it is hard to imagine a world where such magic does not exist while you are reading, even if you are, as I am, a die-hard skeptic in the real world. This is one of the 10 best books written since Faulkner died, in my opinion, and Bailey's Cafe is another of those 10. There are other good living writers out there today, but none compare to the least of these three ladies works, and in my opinion, this even with Paradise, Song of Solomon, Prodigal Summer, The Bean Trees, and better than Pigs in Heaven and Beloved! Enjoy!
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