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Terry McMillan is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of several novels and recipient of the Essence Award for Excellence in Literature. McMillan's ability to capture the dilemmas facing modern-day women with humor and verve has led to a worldwide following and has had a lasting effect on African-American literature.
Her works include Mama, Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction, Waiting To Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Interruption of Everything, Disappearing Acts, Who Asked You? Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, have also been made into films.
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Unlike your recent fiction, your first novel, Mama, was about a
young mother struggling to keep her family together. Are there ways in which A
Day Late and A Dollar Short is a revisiting of the themes and issues in Mama?
How similar are Mildred and Viola?
I don't think the themes are similar in Mama and A Day Late
because in Mama, I was mainly concerned with the hardships one woman
endured in trying to raise five children, mostly alone, and how far she was
willing to go to give them a good life. In A Day Late, I think Viola, the
protagonist shares some of the strengths that Mildred showed in Mama, but
Viola is a tad more vulnerable in that she admits her weaknesses. Her concern
for her children is, of course, out of love but also because she really doesn't
have a life of her own. Further, the themes I tried to address in A Day Late
dealt more with missed opportunities, sibling rivalry, misconceptions parents
and children have about each other but perceive them as truths, as well as the
whole notion and role that birth order plays in a family.
Each of the six narrators possesses a distinct voice. Who was the easiest
person for you to "capture"? The most difficult? Who was your favorite
Price?
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