Mama

novel by McMillan

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In Terry McMillan: Literary success and readership
…her develop her first novel, Mama, published in 1987. A fictional work inspired by McMillan’s upbringing in Michigan, the novel tells the story of a Black woman who raises five children alone after she forces her alcoholic husband to leave. Because her publisher would not support McMillan’s going out on…
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