Mama Day

Gloria Naylor First published 1988

About this book

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

  • 1000blackgirlbooks
  • 20th century
  • african american families
  • african american fiction
  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • african american women
  • afro-americans
  • fiction
  • fiction, african american & black, general
  • fiction, family life, general
  • ficton
  • geechee
  • gerogia sea islands
  • great-aunts
  • gullah
  • independence in women
  • islands
  • large type books
  • magic
  • new york times reviewed
  • shamans
  • south carolina, fiction