Mama Day | Summary

Part I
Though Mama Day is told from three perspectives, the story itself is a simple one; it presents the courtship and marriage of Cocoa and George, and finally George's death in Cocoa's ancestral home, Willow Springs. Cocoa first sees George in New York, where they both live, and then meets him formally at a job interview, which does not go well because Cocoa must spend August in Willow Springs with her grandmother, Abigail, and her great-aunt, Miranda, known as Mama Day. Cocoa does not get the job with George's engineering firm, but on her return from...

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