Mama Flora's Family is a 1997 historical fiction novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens.

After experiencing him shun and shame her in front of his rich contemporaries, Flora begins to feel used and refuses to sleep with him anymore.

Flora later discovers that she is pregnant with Lincoln's child, which prompts his wealthy family to bribe her into leaving Mississippi to avoid scandal.

Flora travels to her sister and ends up taking her niece Ruthana back with her to raise as her own daughter.

During all of this time Willy continues to write his mother, cousin, and his girlfriend Ernestine, but lies and tells them that everything is fine.

Later at the outbreak of World War II, Willy joins the army and upon his return he proposes to his girlfriend.

After Ruthana graduates she takes a job as a social worker in Harlem, only to discover that Ernestine is very sick.

[3] Publishers Weekly mostly panned Mama Flora's Family, stating that the book lost "the human touch that animates the novel's first half".

[5] The miniseries starred Cicely Tyson as Flora Palmer, making it her second time performing in an adaptation of Haley's work.