![]() ![]() I want them to be strangers to trouble.”īetty Jean has to swallow her pride and ask for help in ways she never imagined. I want them to be proud, honest, dignified, civil, kind and loving. I don’t want them to turn out like mine did. “What if I can’t handle all this responsibility? What if I’ve forgotten how to be a parent?. “Even though I haven’t told anybody, I’m scared,” she says. When Trinetta leaves her two young sons with Betty Jean before disappearing into the streets, Betty Jean knows something’s got to give. Luckily, Betty Jean has a wisecracking best friend across the street to lean on, and a sassy nurse to help care for her husband-even if that care is delivered in a way found in no medical textbook. Add to all this a husband succumbing to senility, two busybody sisters and a fulltime job at a local hotel, and Betty Jean’s hands aren’t just full-they’re overflowing. And her other son, Quentin, is a successful chiropractor who wants nothing to do with his family. Her son, Dexter, is in prison for a foolish carjacking. ![]() ![]() Her daughter, Trinetta, is caught in the clutches of drug addiction. No one does slice-of-life like Terry McMillan, whose latest novel sets us down in a shabby modern-day Los Angeles neighborhood where Betty Jean Butler struggles to make ends meet and keep her family together. ![]()
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