Who Asked You? - Softcover

Terry McMillan

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ISBN 10: 0451417038 ISBN 13: 9780451417039

Publisher: SIGNET, 2015

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Trinetta drops off her two young boys with her mother, Betty Jean - and then pulls a disappearing act. BJ is a sassy, pull-no-punches, trademark McMillan matriarch, and she already has her hands full picking up the slack for her other kids, coaching her best friend Tammy through her own tribulations and dealing with two feuding sisters, all while holding down a job as a hotel maid. Who Asked You? raises questions about how we care for one another and how we set limits for those we love when the demands are too great.

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Praise for Who Asked You?

"Rich in narrative tension, nuanced humor, and moral heft....There's a disarming, Dickensian pleasure not only in this rich, multifarious portraiture but also in the constant glints of humor, delight, and plain weirdness that emerge in even the most terrible moments of Betty Jean's story." --Los Angeles Times

"Captures the universal human desire to offer advice--however unwanted--to friends and loved ones. You didn't ask, but I'll tell you anyway: This book is worth reading."--USA Today

"A memorable and realistic...cast of characters."--The Associated Press

"Gritty, engagingly chatty....McMillan excels at depicting small, tender moments of family dynamics."--The Seattle Times

"Right away, from page one, you know that Who Asked You? is going to be a lot of fun to read...I loved it."--Savannah Morning News

"A well-crafted story of acceptance, forgiveness, and hope...McMillan's story belongs to the middle-aged steel magnolias who value loyalty above all."--Publishers Weekly

"McMillan writes jauntily and with customary good humor...Her story affirms the value of love and family, to say nothing of the strength of resolute women in the absence of much strength on the part of those few men who happen to be in the vicinity...a solid, well-told story."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Terry McMillan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, I Almost Forgot About You, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Four of Ms. McMillan's novels have been made into movies: Waiting to Exhale (Twentieth Century Fox, 1995); How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Twentieth Century Fox, 1998); Disappearing Acts (HBO Pictures, 1999); and A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Lifetime, 2014). She lives in California.

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