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With a new introduction by Robert Jones, Jr, author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets
'Gloria Naylor is a brilliant word-worker and a breathtaking story-teller. Mama Day is her masterpiece' Tayari Jones
'A sweeping, ambitious, gorgeous novel - takes you by the throat and refuses to let…
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What a delight to cozy up with the fictional island of this novel, an imagined liminal space on the border of Georgia and South Carolina, we are told “got spit out from the mouth of God, and when it fell to the earth it brought along an army of stars.” Even more delightful, we are told that when He tried to reach down and scoop them back up, He found Himself shaking hands with “the greatest conjure woman on earth.”
Thus we meet the “great, great, grand Mother” of Willow Springs, the archetypal first mother who could “grab a bolt…
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