A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Terry McMillan, 2001
A mother and her four grown children each tell their own version of the same family — money, grudges, love — in voices that keep talking back to each other.
Terry McMillan
McMillan hand-sold her 1987 debut Mama to bookstores herself after it was barely reviewed; Waiting to Exhale then spent months on the bestseller list.
Feels like family, tenderness and love.
What a mother calls worrying, her children call meddling.
Can’t nobody tell me nothing I don’t already know. At least not when it comes to my kids. They all grown, but in a whole lotta ways they still act like children. I know I get on their nervesbut they get on mine, tooand they always accusing me of meddling in their business, but, hell I’m their mother. It’s my job to meddle. What I really do is worry. About all four of ‘em. Out loud. If I didn’t love ‘em, I wouldn’t care two cents about what they did or be the least bit concerned about what happens to ‘em. But I do. Most of the time they can’t see what they doing, so I just tell ‘em what I see. Books by Terry McMillan
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