Mama Day

Mama DayA powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement a big, strong, admirable novel (New York Times Book Review). On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces.

"-Alice Walker

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A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWARD WINNER

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this post-apocalyptic narrative deftly explores gender and race through the eyes of characters struggling to adapt during a pivotal time of crisis and change

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Detective Darren Mathews is pulled out of an early retirement to investigate the case of a missing black college student from an all-white sorority and soon finds a town that will stop at nothing to keep its secrets hidden