Terry McMillan
Author of Waiting to Exhale
About the Author
Terry McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan on October 18, 1951. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, studied film at Columbia University, and enrolled in the Harlem Writer's Guild. Her books include Disappearing Acts, Mama, A Day show more Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, Getting to Happy, and Who Asked You? Her books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back were adapted as major motion pictures. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Terry McMillan
Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction (1990) — Editor; Contributor — 265 copies
Somebody's Comin 1 copy
Associated Works
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contributor — 175 copies
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contributor — 156 copies
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contributor — 109 copies
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributor — 66 copies
Did My Mama Like to Dance? and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters (1994) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Contributor — 21 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- McMillan, Terry Lynn
- Birthdate
- 1951-10-18
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Port Huron, Michigan, USA
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley (BS|1979)
Columbia University (MFA)
Harlem Writer's Guild - Occupations
- novelist
editor
professor - Relationships
- McMillan, Rosalyn (sister)
- Organizations
- University of Arizona
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Very insightful, I'm at the right place in my life to have been able to to relate to Georgia. I enjoyed her as a character and that the story was ultimately about friendship and love.
Stella, goes on vacation and falls in love. Problem is he is younger than Stella and she just can't get over the fact that she is in love with a younger man. What is interesting is that while men do this all the time, Stella fights her feeling over what is going on.
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- 22
- Also by
- 19
- Members
- 7,260
- Popularity
- #3,369
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 219
- ISBNs
- 276
- Languages
- 13
- Favorited
- 10
- Touchstones
- 87
Let's start with how all the good guys go to shit, shall we?
Gregory Hines passed away at some point either before or during her writing this, so she wrote Marvin out the book (he gets murdered buying a Xmas tree in a gang shootout, wtf?). After being married to Gloria for 15 years, you know she back to being a wreck like she was pining for her gay baby daddy back in the day. Her getting to happy is gaining back all the weight she lost after he dies and having her deadbeat ass girlfriends jock her constantly about it.
James (you know the guy that was married to the dying white woman in the first book that swept Bernie off her feet respectfully) is now ia con artist with a very alive and black wife, who has ran through all her money while Bernie is a pill head. That's right,her getting to happy is being a mainlining junkie circling the toilet bowl of ex's because, get this, she winds up taking John back after his trash wife leaves him and their mulatto kid behind.
Robin is still circling the bowl in love on the shallow end of ex's as well, since her getting to happy is returning back to Michael (you know, she could have had a V8 the peen was so tiny) because he loses weight. I'd rather she go back to flip flopping with Russell trifling ass (who is also floating around, same as before, attempting to be something he aint).
Savannah finally gets a husband that ain't tied to somebody else, and her getting to happy is dumping him because after some years she's bored with him. So now, at age 50, she wants alone time after bagging and tagging her man. That's her getting to happy.
Doesn't help that Whitney Houston died by the time this was released (and she was in talks to star in the sequel) so I'm expecting Savannah to die off in Book 3.
This is a redundant snooze fest slash complete desecration of characters we know and love from the 90s. Pass right on by it, unless you like the weak, dull, boring, neverending explorative narration that has underwhelmed all of Terry McMillan's books since How Stella Got Her Groove Back. This one is worse than A Day Late and A Dollar Short, and that one was a stinker.… (more)