Mama day

''Gloria Naylor is a brilliant word-worker and a breathtaking storyteller. Mama Day is her masterpiece'' TAYARI JONESThe people of Willow Springs have inhabited the island since the time of Sapphira Wade, a ''true conjure woman'' who could ''walk through a lightning storm without being touched'' and, as legend has it, murdered the white landowner who was first her master and then her lover. Located between Georgia and South Carolina, but part of neither, Willow Springs makes strange the rest of the world.The island''s matriarch, Mama Day, has inherited Sapphira''s gifts. When Cocoa, her great niece, arrives from New York with her new husband, her life and soul are in danger from the island''s darker powers, and it is up to Mama Day to save her. A hurricane, jealousy, and tragedy combine to teach Cocoa about the power of love and family. Mama Day is a powerful generational saga, at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and wisdom.