Terry McMillan is the award-winning, critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, Who Asked You?, Mama, Disappearing Acts, I Almost Forgot About You, It's Not All Downhill From Here, and the editor of Breaking Ice- An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. She lives in California.
Praise for The Interruption of Everything
“TERRY MCMILLAN KEEPS IT REAL.…easily her most accomplished
tale...by turns laugh-out-loud funny and gut-punch painful.
McMillan has painted a convincing portrait of the kind of woman who
can say yes to everyone but herself.”—Boston Herald
“VINTAGE MCMILLAN...a very human story with large doses of
friendship, humor, family, and imperfect relationships.”—The Dallas
Morning News
“[MCMILLAN] HAS…A CUTTING WIT, a knack for capturing the way real
people think and speak, a fearless willingness to engage complex,
painful issues, and an unerring instinct for fashioning characters
that enchant readers’ imaginations.”—The Washington Post
“WITH HUMOR AND HEART AND HUMANITY, MCMILLAN SPEAKS TO WOMEN ON THE
VERGE.” —The Hartford Courant
Bestseller McMillan (A Day Late and a Dollar Short) does what she does best in her long-awaited sixth novel. Her candid, spirited narrator is Marilyn Grimes, a 40-something wife and mother who's beginning to feel unappreciated by her family and underwhelmed by her 25-year marriage. With her three kids in college, Marilyn works part-time at a crafts store, feeds her neglected creative muse with various artsy projects, and jaws with her friends in their good-natured regular "Private Pity Party." Having always been there for others-her engineer husband, Leon; her drug-addicted sister, Joy, and Joy's two kids; her live-in mother-in-law, Arthurine; and her mother, Lovey-Marilyn wonders what it would be like to think of her own needs for once. Meanwhile Leon's questioning his professional future, his marriage and his fashion sense (he buys a Harley and starts dressing "like a chubby old hip-hopper"). As they seek their own solutions, Marilyn discovers she's pregnant, Lovey shows signs of Alzheimer's, Arthurine begins dating, Joy struggles to get sober and Marilyn's ex-husband reappears and awakens old feelings. With her trademark ability to write thought-provoking tales inspired by the lives and loves of contemporary African-American women, McMillan offers another novel sure to resonate with readers grappling with the questions Marilyn poses to herself. Agent, Molly Friedrich. (July) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Praise for The Interruption of Everything
"TERRY MCMILLAN KEEPS IT REAL....easily her most accomplished
tale...by turns laugh-out-loud funny and gut-punch painful.
McMillan has painted a convincing portrait of the kind of woman who
can say yes to everyone but herself."-Boston Herald
"VINTAGE MCMILLAN...a very human story with large doses of
friendship, humor, family, and imperfect relationships."-The
Dallas Morning News
"[MCMILLAN] HAS...A CUTTING WIT, a knack for capturing the
way real people think and speak, a fearless willingness to engage
complex, painful issues, and an unerring instinct for fashioning
characters that enchant readers' imaginations."-The Washington
Post
"WITH HUMOR AND HEART AND HUMANITY, MCMILLAN SPEAKS TO
WOMEN ON THE VERGE." -The Hartford Courant
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