Her candid, spirited narrator is Marilyn Grimes, a 40-something wife and mother who's beginning to feel unappreciated by her family and underwhelmed by her 25-year marriage. But first, she has to figure out exactly who that is.īestseller McMillan (A Day Late and a Dollar Short) does what she does best in her long-awaited sixth novel. Today forty-four year old Marilyn Grimes has decided to be something other than a wife, a mother, a sister, or a daughter: herself. For a long time I have felt like I inadvertently got my master's in How to Take Care of Everybody Except Yourself and then a PhD in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind. I've been an accountant, a banker, and on occasion, a broker. A veterinarian's assistant and sometimes the veterinarian. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. “Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I've been a chauffeur. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes a “frank, no-holds-barred, humorous look at African-American midlife” ( The Seattle Times).
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