Mama Day Young Adult Fiction African American & Black Romance - Contemporary Social Themes - Friendship Mississippi: A Self-Portrait

Mississippi: A Self-Portrait

He lives in San Francisco

“How you’re choosing to set yourself up for success is between you and the person looking back at you in the mirror

A Chicago Public Library 'Best of the Best' BookA Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of the YearA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionA Horn Book Fanfare BookA Common Sense Media Best Book of the YearA CSMCL Best Multicultural Children’s Book of the YearA Booklist Editors’ Choice

Mama Day Young Adult Fiction African American & Black Romance - Contemporary Social Themes - Friendship Mississippi: A Self-PortraitA powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense, this book "resonates with genuine excitement a big, strong, admirable novel (New York Times Book Review). 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.