Mama

Mama by Terry McMillan        352 pages

Another beautiful story by Terry McMillan.    Mama, Mildred Peacock is a strong black woman who raises 5 children, kicks her trifling husband out and pursues her life as best she can, taking care of her kids in the mix.    She endures so much, 4 girls and 1 young man all growing into teens then adulthood.   Everyone in the family endures twists and turns, smart people do dumb things, quiet children and a child who's eyes are crossed grow up to surprise the family.   Drugs eat away at the easy and the educated no one is safe and it is only a matter of is your drug of choice heroin, cocaine or alcohol?   Funny and sweet, sad and melancholy just like the mixed bag we all receive in life.    Beautiful story.   The reader may get angry at Mama but her humor and widom will make you love her.   Who says there is a right way and a wrong way?   There is a way and we all have to find our own way.   Beautiful.   I recommend this to mature teens (for the drug situations and sexual situations) on up to adults and seniors.   Great story.

 - Shirley J.