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- In New York, McMillan joined the Harlem Writers Guild, whose other budding authors helped 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.
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Complete summary of Terry McMillan's Mama. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Mama. Despite personal disappointments and desperate poverty, a strong...
Jan 1, 2001 · The explosive novel that introduced the world to #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan. Mildred Peacock is the tough, funny, feisty heroine of Mama , a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together.
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Mildred Peacock is the tough, funny, feisty heroine of Mama, a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildred’s world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks, but her five children are her dream, her hope, and her future.
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Jun 5, 2023 · In Mama, McMillan captures a life not just a moment. The reader follows the main character’s evolution from a struggling young wife to an abandoned mother, a rudderless middle-aged woman, and finally as the matriarch of grown kids she still desperately wants to nudge in the right direction.
Summary. Themes. Characters. Critical Essays. Characters Discussed. PDF Cite. Mildred Peacock, a black mother of five. Mildred struggles to rear her children during the turbulent 1960’s and...
After a violent fight, Mildred throws her drunken husband out of the house. On her own in the poor town of Point Haven, Michigan, Mildred scrimps and drinks, works and goes on welfare, struggling to raise her kids and keep her sanity.
Mildred Peacock is the tough, funny, feisty heroine of Mama, a survivor who’ll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildred’s world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks, but her...
