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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great novel!  It's a complex story that has themes in equal weighting between a love story, supernatural happenings, generational conflicts, and the dynamic definition of the word &quot;family&quot;.  The author has a wonderful writing style that paints a very detailed picture of the surro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9328228">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book recommended by my lovely friend Tawny and I am very grateful or I might not have stumbled upon it for awhile.  A magical story of love, bitterness, revenge, redemption and set in the South with one of the best characters I've been introduced to in a long time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A beautiful story about a town called &quot;Willow Springs,&quot; so tiny it doesn't appear on any maps and the story of the generations of women who have lived there. More precisely it is the story of Cocoa, the latest member of that family line. The writing is entrancing and has a feeling of a dia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1742557">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well...I was told by two good friends that this book was one of the best they've ever read.  I don't totally debunk their ideas, but I can't say that I share the same opinion.  The book was good...just weird.  It was really slow starting out, and I sometimes felt it could've been condensed to a shor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42028451">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Favorite Quotes</strong><br/><br/>She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/468485">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[From the Library Journal:<br/>&quot;Willow Springs is a sparsely populated sea island just off America's southeastern coast whose small black community is dominated by the elderly matriarch, Miranda &quot;Mama&quot; Day. When Mama Day's greatniece, Cocoa, marries, she returns to Willow Springs with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41152870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I read this book I love it more and more. It is raw in its emotional power and leaves you feeling like you've understood, if only momentarily, the coy dance between free will and destiny.<br/>It's also impeccably written, with magical realism so real it can <em>scare</em>, love, humor, and most o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3878952">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most complex and colorful books I've ever read.  The first part may be harder to get into, the main characters start off pretty jaded, but they change with time.  And really the whole book starts once they both end up going home to the island together.  An incredible read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gloria Naylor?  Who is she, I asked?  I was reading a book by another author, who continuously incorporated the names of books and their authors being read by her main character.  And there was Gloria Naylor!  So, next trip to the library, I looked up the shelf where Gloria Naylor resides . . . and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58344310">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still processing this book. I may be processing forever. I think it's one of those stories that will continue to haunt me for years to come, thoughts of a slow fall or lavender water popping into my mind when I'm doing the laundry, or protecting Ophelia from the rain. <br/><br/>I don't know wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60913084">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a really hard time getting into this book, but I LOVED the last 70 pgs that made it worth the read. It's about a small island off S. Carolina where only African American's live and it talks about their heritage to a degree, Mama Day, her grand niece Cocoa and Cocoa's boyfriend/husband. The boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45405921">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I changed my mind a lot as to whether I liked this book.  After discussing it with my book club, my opinion improved dramatically.  I really think it is a book you have to read at least twice.  I felt like I was wading through it and kept getting lost and I knew I was missing things.  After stepping...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46239909">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading my review of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2731276.The_Story_of_Edgar_Sawtelle_A_Novel" title="The Story of Edgar Sawtelle  A Novel by David Wroblewski">Edgar Sawtelle</a>, my friend Anna told me that I had to read Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, a loose reworking of Shakespeare's The Tempest. She loaned me her well-annotated copy (thanks!) and I dug in, not really knowing what to expect. Naylor keeps the supernatural elements prese...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42246593">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first Gloria Naylor book I read &amp; it has to be the greatest. Everything i learned about the African American female literary tradition is captured in this novel. It has strong elements of Black Folk Culture which drive an amazing love story. The characters are complex and simple. The fam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69456934">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing!  So masterfully written.  Such deeply developed characters, plot, themes and symbolism.  Love the way the story is told from different points of view.  Love the way the story is told from the future looking back.  The author's writing style paints such vivid images in my mind.<br/>I would ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31413472">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Naylor had my five enthusiastic stars when I was about half way through this book.  The second half, however, dropped a star.  I loved the juxtaposition of life and death, and the portrait of the two as inextricably and mysteriously entwined; I loved the intergenerational give-and-take; I loved the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66345105">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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