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(0)Gloria Naylor
2) Mama Day
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
In a small Georgia town, Mama Day, uses her gifts as a seer and healer, but her powers are ultimately tested when her beloved niece's life hangs in the balance
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Bailey's Cafe, where the food may not be much but the ambience is graced by myth and magic. The cafe is home to Sadie, the ladylike alcoholic with a mania for cleanliness; to Sweet Esther, who caters to unspeakable appetites in a nearby "boarding house," taking payment only in white roses; and to Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle. Gloria Naylor's breathtaking new novel is an enthralling fusion of lives whose...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Thirty-seven stories on the black experience. They range from Ralph Ellison's Backwacking, A Plea to the Senator, which is a satire on racism, to Sherley Anne William's Meditation on History, the story of a slave uprising, to Toni Cade Bambara's The Lesson, on a poor girl's visit to a toy shop for the rich.
