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Overview
The explosive novel that introduced #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan-now in a new trade edition.
With her phenomenal New York Times bestseller Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan became one of the most important American novelists writing today. Here, for the first time in mass market paperback, is her extraordinary first novel. It is the exhilarating tale of feisty Mildred Peacock, whose five children are her hope and her future.
Synopsis
The explosive novel that introduced #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan-now in a new trade edition.
Publishers Weekly
This is McMillan's zesty first novel about an impoverished black family's struggle to overcome its problems.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
This is McMillan's zesty first novel about an impoverished black family's struggle to overcome its problems.Library Journal
Mama, a first novel, tells of a proud black woman, Mildred Peacock, and her five children. After a violent fight, Mildred throws her drunken husband out of the house. On her own in the poor town of Point Haven, Michigan, Mildred scrimps and drinks, works and goes on welfare, struggling to raise her kids and keep her sanity. Mildred's closest bond is to her oldest daughter, Freda, and their lives parallel each other's progress from despair to hope. The book's main weakness is that the author apparently could not decide what to leave out. She also has not decided who her audience is: at times she seems to be writing to blacks, at other times to be explaining things to naive white readers. Although the story has power, it lacks focus and a clear point of view.-- Janet Boyarin Blundell, MLS, Brookdale Community College Adjunct Faculty, Lincroft, New Jersey