Mama Day (Bookcassette(r) Edition)

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Summary: Mama Day
Review: This was the best book that I have ever read!! Gloria Naylor has become one of my favorite authors with this incredible love story and glimpse into the world of mystery. Gloria Naylor's novel touches our inner conscience and causes us to question the thin line between myth and reality. This book brings together many extraordinary beliefs and instills the factors involved in having good strong family values. Gloria Naylor takes a romance and infuses it with the magic and mystery and tragedy that accompanies true love. It's a contemporary love story, a timeless generational saga and tale of the supernatural. Naylor expertly explores and effects several kinds of reconciliation: the rural past and the urban present; myth and history; individuals and communities; faith and logic; the living and the dead.

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Summary: Totally engrossing and extremely compelling
Review: You will be compelled to read this book over and over again. The characters will draw you into this story set in New York City and a fictional small island town located somewhere between Georgia and S. Carolina. The supernatural aspects of the book will leave you breathlessly in awe of Naylor's ability to weave times, events, and characters into an intrinsic quilt of fictious reality. There were times I forgot the characters were not real people and that Willow Springs does not actually exist. Naylor's words alone create the smells, tastes, and colors of a rural island town, as she brings the characters alive with colorful dialogue and imagery, placing her on equal ground with authors like Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler (Kindred). Each time you read this book, you will discover pieces of a complex puzzle that you might have overlooked the first time. This is a books that requires you to stay aware while reading it.