Mama Day (Naylor) - Book Reviews

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Resonates with genuine excitement.… [A] big, strong admirable novel.
New York Times Book Review


This is a wonderful novel, full of spirit and sass and wisdom, and completely realized.
Washington Post


Naylor has a dazzling sense of humour, rich comic observation and that indefinable quality we call "art."
Rita Mae Brown - Los Angeles Times


The beauty of Naylor's prose is its plainness, and the secret power of her third novel is that she does not simply tell a story but brings you face to face with human beings living through the complexity, pain and mystery of real life.
Publishers Weekly


[Mama Day] showcases Naylor's talent for descriptive prose. Though the novel as a whole fairly breathes with life, it is marred by the unintentionally comic death of a major character, who is attacked by a vicious chicken. This farm boy was not convinced. —Laurence Hull, Cannon Memorial Lib., Concord, N.C.
Library Journal