Who Asked You

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Kaleidoscopic, fast-paced and filled with McMillan's inimitable humour, Who Asked You Opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and disappears. BJ has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband and her own postponed dreams-all while working delivering room service at a hotel. Her son Dexter is about to be paroled from prison; Quentin, the family success, can't be bothered to lend a hand; and taking care of two lively grandsons is the last thing she wants.

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Praise for Who Asked You

Rich in narrative tension, nuanced humor, and moral heft.Theres 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 Jeans story.Los Angeles Times

Captures the universal human desire to offer advicehowever unwantedto friends and loved ones. You didnt ask, but Ill tell you anyway: This book is worth reading.USA Today

A memorable and realisticcast 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 hopeMcMillans story belongs to the middle-aged steel magnolias who value loyalty above all.Publishers Weekly

McMillan writes jauntily and with customary good humorHer 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 vicinitya solid, well-told story.Kirkus Reviews

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.