Mama Day

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Mama Day
312 pages; Vintage
Naylor's prose is electrifying, provocative, intricate and unlike anyone else's. In this 1988 novel, she introduces us to the inhabitants of Willow Springs, a Sea Island off Georgia populated solely by descendants of slaves—among them Mama Day, who can summon lightning storms and see the future in her dreams. What we hope to see? A Naylor renaissance.
— Leigh Haber