![]() ![]() "We're not getting any younger and family is family. "I have prayed for all of us to come to our senses even though I know it's an ongoing process," Venetia says. Original Title: Who Asked You - By Terry McMillan Uploaded by Viking, Penguin Group (USA) Description: Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from 1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Trinetta's strong-hearted kids lead the family back to each other but McMillan's story belongs to the middle-aged steel magnolias who value loyalty above all. ![]() And wealthy, God-fearing Venetia can't see what's plain to her spoiled kids and husband: that she's been ignoring her own needs and her crumbling marriage. Arlene, a single mom who has a master's in psychology and harbors a painful secret, struggles with over-protecting her long-closeted gay son, Omar. BJ's drug-addled daughter, Trinetta who lost custody of her baby girl dumps two sons on her meanwhile BJ's youngest son, Dexter, does prison time for a crime he won't admit to, and her eldest, Quentin, searches for himself. McMillan (Waiting to Exhale) deftly weaves her tale of a black Los Angeles family's disharmony around the narratives of bickering sisters Betty Jean, Arlene, and Venetia as they watch their kids stumble into adulthood. Three generations take a long hard look at each other and, finding lots not to like, try to outrun, ignore, or beat the demons pulling them together in this well-crafted story of acceptance, forgiveness, and hope. ![]()
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