McMillan's signature voice and unforgettable characters bring universal issues to brilliant, vivid life. Who Asked You? casts an intimate look at the burdens and blessings of family and speaks to trusting your own judgment even when others don't agree. The drama unfolds through the perspectives of a rotating cast of characters, pitch-perfect, each playing a part, and full of surprises. Her son Dexter is about to be paroled from prison Quentin, the family success, can't be bothered to lend a hâˆ§ and taking care of two lively grandsons is the last thing BJ thinks she needs. Her adult children have all taken different paths and seem to have forgotten the values they were raised with.

BJ, a trademark McMillan heroine, already has her hands full dealing with her other adult children, two opinionated sisters, an ill husband, and her own postponed dreamsÂ-all while holding down a job as a hotel maid. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of Who Asked You Betty Jean (BJ) has her hands full with a family who can't get it together. Kaleidoscopic, fast-paced, and filled with McMillan's inimitable humor, Who Asked You? opens as Trinetta leaves her two young sons with her mother, Betty Jean, and promptly disappears. Now, in her eighth novel, McMillan gives exuberant voice to characters who reveal how we live nowÂ-at least as lived in a racially diverse Los Angeles neighborhood. Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back With her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendshipsÂ- Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short among themÂ- Terry McMillan has touched millions of readers.

Who Asked You? by Terry McMillan