![]() ![]() Highly entertaining, deeply human, a page-turner full of heart and soul, The Interruption of Everything is vintage Terry McMillan-and a triumphant testament to the fact that the detour is the path, and living life "by the numbers" never quite adds up. Marilyn Grimes is a wife, a mother, a sister, and a daughter. ![]() She feels like she’s about ready to jump. ![]() But at forty-four, Marilyn’s got too much on her plate and nothing to feed her passion. She troubleshoots for her grown kids, cares for her live-in mother-in-law, Arthurine (and elderly poodle, Snuffy) keeps tabs on her girlfriends Paulette and Bunny and her own aging mother and foster sister-all the while holding down a part-time job. That’s a significant increase from the previous decade, when only 23 flood disasters. Marilyn Grimes, wife and mother of three, has made a career of deferring her dreams to build a suburban California home and lifestyle with her husband, Leon. According to Statista, more than 130 major flood disasters were recorded in the U.S. The Interruption of Everything, her sixth novel, McMillan takes on the fault lines of midlife and family life, reminds us once again of the redeeming power of friendship, and turns her eye toward the dilemma of how a woman starts to put her own needs higher on the to-do list while not shortchanging everyone else. ![]()
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