Hailed as Gloria Naylor's masterpiece, Mama Day is a story of love, belonging, inheritance and magic.
What joy to find a novel that rewrites Prospero as a woman-and an extraordinarily powerful woman at that . . . Mama Day's power is as mysterious as Prospero's, but her motives are clear: protect those she loves, even if they won't listen to her about needing that protection. Told in richly textured language, sexy and scary and embracing of human flaws, Mama Day reimagines The Tempest as a story of matriarchal power.