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.
- ISBN10 0099605805
- ISBN13 9780099605805
- Publish Date 17 January 1991 (first published 21 April 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 September 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 400
- Language English