She is now friends with her ex (“I just spoke to Jonathan on the phone yesterday”) and has set out to explore other family dramas in her trademark candid and funny style. “I just ended up realizing I had become this other person that I didn’t like,” McMillan said. The nasty split with ex-husband Jonathan Plummer, the inspiration for the popular novel and movie “ How Stella Got Her Groove Back,” was dissected everywhere, from book blogs to “ The Oprah Winfrey Show.” A lawsuit, fraud allegations and public accusations all played out like plot points in one of her novels. ( From the publisher.Terry McMillan writes best-selling fiction, but it was real-life drama – a very public divorce – that garnered her some of her biggest headlines. McMillan’s signature voice and unforgettable characters bring universal issues to brilliant, vivid life. Who Asked You? casts an intimate look at the burdens and blessings of family and speaks to trusting your own judgment even when others don’t agree. The drama unfolds through the perspectives of a rotating cast of characters, pitch-perfect, each playing a part, and full of surprises. Her son Dexter is about to be paroled from prison Quentin, the family success, can’t be bothered to lend a hand and taking care of two lively grandsons is the last thing BJ thinks she needs. BJ, a trademark McMillan heroine, already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreams-all while holding down a job delivering room service at a hotel. Kaleidoscopic, fast-paced, and filled with McMillan’s inimitable humor, Who Asked You? opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live now-at least as lived in a racially diverse Los Angeles neighborhood. With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendships- Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among them-Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers. 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.
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