A Day Late and A Dollar Short: Summary and book reviews of A Day Late and A Dollar Short by Terry McMillan, plus links to an excerpt from A Day Late and A Dollar Short and a biography of Terry McMillan.

Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan's tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family -  matriarch Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, and their four adult kids, each of whom sees life -- and one another -- through thick and thin, and entirely on their own terms. With her hallmark exuberance and cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, the author of the phenomenal best-sellers Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back has given us a novel that takes us ever-further into the hearts, minds, and souls of America -- and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.

Media Reviews

The Washington Post Book World Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read . . . who makes me glad to be a woman . . . [Hers] is the voice of the kind of woman all of us know and all of us need the warm, strong, bossy mother/sister/best friend.   New York Newsday McMillan is not only a gifted fiction writer but a social critic as clear-eyed as Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston or Edith Wharton.   Boston Globe McMillan is carving a formidable niche in fiction.   Boston Globe McMillan is carving a formidable niche in fiction.   Philadelphia Tribune Arguably the best chronicler of Black life today.   Philadelphia Tribune Arguably the best chronicler of Black life today.   San Francisco Chronicle ...the world's finest chronicler of modern life among African American men and women.

Recent Reader Reviews

Rated of 5 by Yvette
I read this book with interest and questions. In my poor Harlem family we did not condone the use of profanity, therefore can anyone discuss why the author Terry McMillan has her characters use so much of it. I am an older reader but this was a...   Read More

Rated of 5 by a j darden
I really enjoyed everything about the book from the writing style to the complexity of the characters. T. McMillan is an execellent story teller.

Rated of 5 by jackie watkins
Fantastic. Everyone should read this book, you'll find a family member among the pages. I know I found several, including myself. A must read for the avid reader.

Rated of 5 by Ms Tee
I read this book,and was so enlighted it was hard to put down.
It will have you laughing,and feeling sad too.
I can relate to some of things that happen in that family,
It's like the author was talking to me.
It was a good book and...   Read More

Rated of 5 by Twain
This book, which I read almost a year ago, captures the reader from the start. The characters are breathing also, from the start of the book. they are so clearly defined that the names could have been delelted from the text after the first forty...   Read More

Rated of 5 by Candace
This was a good book about a disfunctional family that was very functional at the end of it all.

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