Mama - Softcover

McMillan, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671884484 ISBN 13: 9780671884482

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1994

Synopsis

Mildred Peacock, a spirited African-American woman living in the declining Michigan town of Point Haven, decides to kick out her jealous husband, Crook, and raise her five children on her own. Reissue.

About this title

About the Author:

Terry McMillan is a New York Times bestselling author of a number of novels, including Disappearing Acts, Getting to Happy, and Waiting to Exhale. She studied journalism at UC Berkeley and screenwriting at Columbia before making her fiction debut with Mama, which won both the Doubleday New Voices in Fiction Award and the American Book Award. She is also a recipient of the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Pasadena, California.

From AudioFile:

Focusing on the African-American woman's experience, Mama reflects on children, men, money, loneliness and alcoholism through Mildred Peacock's life and family. Hattie Winston's inflections, pace and clarity are excellent; her warm, expressive voice consistently portrays the characters. Winston's best characterizations are Mildred and her eldest daughter, Freda, who are the focus of the story. Slow, sexy blues music precedes and follows the narrative, adding flavor to the circular, repetitious pattern of life. Freda's pondering, "How can you save your family from itself?" gets at the essence of Mama. J.A.H. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0671884484
• ISBN 13: 9780671884482
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 320