Mama, Terry McMillan

Mani’s Notes: “‘Mama’ was the first book I read that explored the experience of Black motherhood. It’s raw, it’s real, it feels familiar. Let’s file this one under, “books I shouldn’t have been reading at my young age.”

SYNOPSIS: “IT AINT THAT I DON’T BELIEVE IN GOD, I JUST DON’T TRUST HIS JUDGMENT” 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. Not since Alice Walker’s The Color Purple has a Black woman’s story been protrayed with such rich power, honesty and love.”