A Day Late and a Dollar Short

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"Without question, this is McMillan's best. A glorious novel....A moving tapestry of familial love and redemption."-The Washington Post With her hallmark exuberance and a cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, Terry McMillan has given us a tour-de-force novel of family, healing, and redemption. A Day Late and a Dollar Short takes us deep into the hearts, minds, and souls of America-and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.

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"A glorious novel...without question, this is McMillan's best." The Washington Post

"McMillan has the uncanny ability to render family conflict with both humor and compassion...a life-affirming read...a triumph." The Los Angeles Times

"Touching and funny." People

"[McMillan] in top form." The New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Terry McMillanis the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofWaiting 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 ofBreaking Ice- An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Four of Ms. McMillan's novelshave 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); andA Day Late and a Dollar Short(Lifetime, 2014). She lives in California.