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 Waiting to Exhale
“Terry McMillan has created a well-written, truthful, and funny
story of four African-American women...and the sometimes volatile
world of Black female-Black male relationships.”—Spike Lee
“A delightful, irreverent, and sometimes raunchy novel about
figuring it out (or not) with your friends.”—Lit Hub
“The characters are so real, that you’ll wonder if McMillan hasn’t
somehow overheard a private conversation. In the end, you’ll cheer
for Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin. But the cheering starts
for McMillan on the first page.”—The Boston Globe
“Sharp, dynamic, and funny as hell.”—New York Daily News
“McMillan is not only a gifted writer but a social critic as
clear-eyed as Mark Twain or Zora Neale Hurston or Edith
Wharton.”—Newsday
“Waiting to Exhale’s electric voices grab you and never let go…We
root for characters so immediate they leap off the page; these
women are cynical, self-deluding, furious—yet ever hopeful and
relentlessly funny...Their struggles will resonate for anyone
fighting to get her fair share of loving.”—New Woman
“Terry McMillan has such a wonderful ear for story and dialogue.
She gives us four women with raw, honest emotions that breathe off
the page.”—Amy Tan
“McMillan shines new light on contemporary African-Americans in
bars, cafes, offices, and health clubs all over America who seldom
show up so vividly in print.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Women, triumph, revenge, comradeship…a paean to the sisterhood of
all women.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Savannah, Bernadine, Robin, and Gloria are bright and aggressive,
resilient and sassy...just bursting with life...Through it all,
these four vibrant and durable women are there for one
another.”—The Washington Post Book World
“Captures what life and love are all about today.”—USA Today
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