A Day Late and a Dollar Short

"Undoubtedly, McMillan's finest novel to date...a delicious family saga...McMillan has an uncanny ability to render family conflict with both humor and compassion...a life-affirming read...a triumph." (The Los Angeles Times) "McMillan's best book yet. She has a true comic gift." (The Village Voice) "[A] slam dunk of a novel...this book is a gift." (New York Newsday) "Touching and funny." (People) "By the last pages you're weeping. You're laughing. You're hooked. It's oh-so-good." (Chicago Tribune) "Nobody does it better." (The Toronto Star)

Terry McMillan is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of the novels Mama, Disappearing Acts, Waiting to Exhale, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. She lives in northern California with her family.