Mama Day | There Are Four Sides to Everything
In the following review, Bharati Mukherjee suggests that literary excess is a blessing in Mama Day.
On a note card above my writing desk hang the words of the late American original, Liberace: "Too much of a good thing is simply wonderful."
Excess—of plots and subplots, of major characters and walk-ons, of political issues and literary allusions—is what Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, her third and most ambitious book, is blessed with. "There are just too many sides to the whole story," Cocoa, Mama Day's grandniece, explains at the end of this longish novel, and the story obviously feels urgent enough to both Cocoa and to Ms. Naylor that they present it to us...
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