Like so many other books coming out even this year, this book is an awkward cousin to The Tempest. Miranda is Mama Day, the late-aged healer of the island “Willow Springs” on the border between South Carolina and Georgia. This is a book chock full of characters named for Shakespeare denizens, like Ophelia, Miranda, Cicero, and George. It’s kind of a Caribbean book, but more so has the history and taste of Gullah islands, retaining a lot of its Americanness. The novel is told from three […]