“I have to give it to grandmothers,” McMillan said. She set out to tell the story of Betty Jean, a grandmother forced to raise her two young grandsons at a point in her life when she expects to have time for herself. The best way to show that is in a family.” In the novel, she said, “I want to play off the idea sometimes people who have the most to say about other people’s behavior don’t take that much time to look at their own. Over the years I’ve tried to stop myself and learn to be tactful.” Sometimes no one wants to hear what I have to say. “Especially since our mama has been gone, and she’s been gone twenty years. “As the oldest of five, I have a tendency to be opinionated and somewhat judgmental,” she said by phone from her home in Pasadena. McMillan takes the title, Who Asked You?, personally.
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