Mama Open ebook - 1987
by Terry McMillan
Summary
The explosive novel that introduced #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan
Meet Mildred Peacock, mother of five, black, and fed up with poverty and the jealous rampages of her husband, Crook. When Crook runs over her foot with his ’59 Mercury, she finally kicks him out to raise her kids on her own.
Mildred is resourceful and sly, sassy and sexy, and she’ll do anything to pay the bills. But she loses job after job, and one man after another, until alcohol and nerve pills are her only comfort. All along though, there are always her kids, the most important things in her life.
From the Midwest to the West Coast to New York, Mama moves with high-spirited realism through the 1960s and 1970s and the promises and disappointments that era meant for all black people.
Details
- Title Mama
- Author Terry McMillan
- Binding Open Ebook
- Pages 260
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Date 1987-01-16
- ISBN 9780547524047 / 0547524048
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 880
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC