Author:
Terry McMillan

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Sign up todayA Day Late and a Dollar Short - Abridged
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Learn more“Without question, this is McMillan’s best. A glorious novel....A moving tapestry of familial love and redemption.”—The Washington Post
With her hallmark exuberance and a cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, Terry McMillan has given us a tour-de-force novel of family, healing, and redemption. A Day Late and a Dollar Short takes us deep into the hearts, minds, and souls of America—and gives us six more friends we never want to leave.
Terry McMillan is the award-winning, critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, Who Asked You?, Mama, Disappearing Acts, I Almost Forgot About You, It’s Not All Downhill From Here, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. She lives in California.
Terry McMillan is the award-winning, critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, Who Asked You?, Mama, Disappearing Acts, I Almost Forgot About You, It’s Not All Downhill From Here, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. She lives in California.
Audiobook details
Narrator:
Terry McMillan
ISBN:
9780786556694
Length:
5 hours 28 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Publication date:
January 1, 2001
Edition:
Abridged
Reviews
"A glorious novel...without question, this is McMillan's best." The Washington Post"McMillan has the uncanny ability to render family conflict with both humor and compassion...a life-affirming read...a triumph." The Los Angeles Times
"Touching and funny." People
"[McMillan] in top form." The New York Times Book Review
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