Mama

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Washington Square Press, 1989 - Fiction - 260 pages
With her phenomenal New York Times bestseller Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan became one of the most important American novelists writing today. Here, for the first time in mass market paperback, is her extraordinary first novel. It is the exhilarating tale of feisty Mildred Peacock, whose five children are her hope and her future. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
15
Section 3
23
Copyright

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About the author (1989)

Terry McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan on October 18, 1951. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, studied film at Columbia University, and enrolled in the Harlem Writer's Guild. Her books include Disappearing Acts, Mama, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, Getting to Happy, and Who Asked You? Her books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back were adapted as major motion pictures.

Bibliographic information

TitleMama
AuthorsTerry McMillan, McMillan
PublisherWashington Square Press, 1989
ISBN0671703625, 9780671703622
Length260 pages
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Fiction / African American & Black / General
Fiction / General
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