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Summary: If this "ain't" the life
Review: Terry has outdone herself with this novel. It takes you back to Mama and Disappering acts. When you couldn't put the book down. Terry makes the characters come alive; so you sit and wonder what Lewis will do next, or you are so mad you want to cuss George out yourself. I really enjoyed this book and was very sad when it ended. Vy really knows how to accept a dysfunctional family, You do it with love...... A big ups to Terry for putting a story out there that we can all relate to.. I know I have some of these folks in my family.
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Summary: Worth The Wait
Review: I must say that I truelly enojoyed this read. My book club "Sister to Sister" in Sicily, picked this book for Our February read because we wanted something exciting, and we made a good choice. After reading the excerts, I couldn't wait for the book to hit the shelves. Viola and her family kept me thoroughly entertained throughout the entire book. At times I laughed outloud and others I cried. The book touched me emotionally. I must say this book was also very realistic, although most families won't admit it. But inspite of their trials and tribulations,and their individual problems, in the end, they came together as a family,and thats what really mattered.
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Summary: A REMINDER OF THE POWER OF LOVE AND RESILIENCY
Review: Beginning with "Mama" ( 1987) and on through "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" (1996), few have plumbed the richness of contemporary African-American experience as ably as Terry McMillan. She has done it with grace, humor, style, truth, and an exacting ear for dialogue. Those with ears to hear will listen and re-listen to this superb rendering of her latest tale, which unflinchingly deals with many of the ills that beset us - sorrow, unfaithfulness, addiction, self-deception, untruthfulness, anger. Yet, over and above all of these tribulations, Ms. McMillan shows us the astounding power of resiliency and love. Viola, a seemingly-impossible-to-capture family matriarch and the mainspring of this story, is indelibly captured by the performances of TV actress Desiree Coleman and film and TV actor M E. Willis. Ranging from razor sharp to coy to vitriolic to forgiving, their voices bring this family drama to life. Author McMillan joins actors Alfre Woodard and Richard Allen to read the abridged version. As vibrant as her prose, Ms. McMillan's voice adds impact to these adaptations.
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Summary: She's baaaaa-ck
Review: "A Day Late and A Dollar Short" is Terri McMillan's first effort since "How Stella Got Her Grove Back", and it is obvious that Terri has gotten her literary grove back in this sparkling tale of family rivalry. "Day Late..." is the story of the Price family, and it opens with matriarch Viola sharing her thoughts about her four children and estranged husband. The story continues with first person accounts from all the Price's as they struggle with infidelity, substance abuse, poor health, imprisonment, child molestation, and just plain ole family squabbles. In "Day Late...", McMillan has recovered nicely from the stream-of-consciousness style of prose that often bogged down "How Stella Got Her Grove Back". She dedicates this newest work to her late mother, two sisters and brother, which can't help but lead the viewer to wonder if this story isn't, as with many of McMillan's works, semi-autobiographical. Whether it is or isn't, you'll enjoy meeting the Price family and probably won't even mind the requisite happy ending.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: Great, Great book! The characters were so real. You feel like you know them. I appreciate the family tree, I referred to it often. You will laugh and cry!
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Summary: TERRY YOU HAVE DONE IT AGAIN
Review: I could not wait to get my hands on this book. Terry McMillan invites you in, sits you down and you are held captive by her story telling. In this new novel from Terry we get to meet the Price Family---mother Viloa, father Cecil and the children--Paris, Charolotte, Lewis, & Janelle. The story takes us thorugh the lives of each family memeber and beleive me get ready to laugh, cry , shout and just shake your head. I loved the family tree chart in the book and I referred to it many times. Don't walk, run to the bookstore and get this one. You will not regret it. Continued success & blessings to Terry McMillan and please don't make us wait so long for the next one. :) Peace!!
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Summary: Great Read
Review: This is Terry McMillian back in full fabulous story telling force. She does a dynamic job of telling the story of family relationships which can be easily related to. We all know these characters, Infact, we may be these characters. This is a must read book. It is a page turner that will have you laughing and crying. I think she should contuinue the saga of the Price family in another book.
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Summary: Mama's Life according to the off spring
Review: Not since Jeffery Archer have I seen so many points of view. Once again we drop into the Price's family lives and like a fly on the wall we are able to examine why the familys' life takes a particular direction. Not since MAMA have we had a chance to spend so much time with her. It's true the Mama is so different depending on who is doing the looking. Some of the problems are presented, drug abuse, incest, unsafe sex, asthma, in a simplified manner and the solution almost too easy but the point is made and we know there are solutions no matter how difficult. Once again the materialism prevails, naming and extoling the labels. This is lower and middle class trying to buy upper at any means necessary. There is redemption as the family or what is left of it comes together. Easy read and can't wait to see these same people again, Expecially Paris.
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Summary: TERRY'S BEST BY FAR
Review: A Day Late is a remarkable work of fiction, which does'nt feel like fiction because it's so true to life in so many ways. As another reviewer stated, it is similar to Soul Food, but the Price family is more dysfunctional. Each chapter is told through the eyes of one of the family members, which is helpful because it gives the actual voice of each character with clarity and depth to help the reader understand the characters personality and feelings. The tragic incident in the book really got to me to the point where I had to put the book down for awhile and re-group. This book is about family and how important family is and to be careful how you treat family because you only have one. I had not enjoyed one of Terry's books since Waiting To Exhale prior to reading A Day Late, which is undeniably her best to date. Terry put her foot in this one y'all.
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Summary: All Hail the Queen
Review: The highlight film is rolling and Michael Jordan is doing a 360 degree, hang time 10 minutes, from the free throw line, dunk. Can anyone do it better? Of course not, because he simultaneously invented and perfected it. Terry McMillian has done the same with comtempory AA fiction, she forged it into the American mainstream and has never looked back. She created a genre we did not know we were looking for and did not dare to dream might one day exist. McMillian has been imitated and emulated but like Jordan is in a class by herself. In a Day Late and a Dollar Short she is back and better than ever. Be prepared to be touched, enlightened and explore all the things that make a family what it is. By the end of this book all I needed was a Nike contract "I Am Viola Price". A nicer version, hopefully.
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