Kaleidoscopic, fast-paced, and filled with McMillan's inimitable humor, Who Asked You? opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live now-at least as lived in a racially diverse Los Angeles neighborhood. Although McMillan writes primarily about African-American families, her ever-present wry humor and keen portrayal of love in all its exasperating imperfection make her work universal."Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships-Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them-Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. But Who Asked You? stands up to any of McMillan’s previous work, with a cast of wholly memorable characters and a plucky heroine you genuinely want to win. McMillan will likely always be best known for her runaway bestsellers How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale, both made into movies. Slowly, in their own ways, friends and family band together to help her raise the boys, who have promising futures despite their troubled past. I want them to be strangers to trouble.”īetty Jean has to swallow her pride and ask for help in ways she never imagined. I want them to be proud, honest, dignified, civil, kind and loving.
I don’t want them to turn out like mine did. “What if I can’t handle all this responsibility? What if I’ve forgotten how to be a parent?. “Even though I haven’t told anybody, I’m scared,” she says.
When Trinetta leaves her two young sons with Betty Jean before disappearing into the streets, Betty Jean knows something’s got to give. Luckily, Betty Jean has a wisecracking best friend across the street to lean on, and a sassy nurse to help care for her husband-even if that care is delivered in a way found in no medical textbook. Add to all this a husband succumbing to senility, two busybody sisters and a fulltime job at a local hotel, and Betty Jean’s hands aren’t just full-they’re overflowing. And her other son, Quentin, is a successful chiropractor who wants nothing to do with his family. Her son, Dexter, is in prison for a foolish carjacking. Her daughter, Trinetta, is caught in the clutches of drug addiction. No one does slice-of-life like Terry McMillan, whose latest novel sets us down in a shabby modern-day Los Angeles neighborhood where Betty Jean Butler struggles to make ends meet and keep her family together.
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