"Terry McMillan is perhaps the world's finest chronicler of modern life among African-American men and women." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Savannah, Bernardine, Robin and Gloria are bright and aggresive, 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)

Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951[1], in Port Huron, Michigan) is an African-American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists.

Her first book, Mama, was self-promoted. She achieved national attention in 1992 with her third novel, Waiting to Exhale, which remained on The New York Times bestseller list for many months. Forest Whitaker turned it into a film in 1995. In 1998, another of McMillan's novels, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, was made into a movie. McMillan's novel Disappearing Acts was subsequently produced as a direct-to-cable feature, starring Wesley Snipes and Sanaa Lathan.

Her most recent work, The Interruption of Everything, was published on July 19, 2005.

Personal life

McMillan married Jonathan Plummer, in 1998. When they married, McMillan was in her mid 40s, Plummer, his early 20s; he was the inspiration for the love interest of the main character in the book How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Her life did not follow the movie when in December 2005, Plummer told McMillan that he is gay; in January 2006, she filed for divorce. [2] The divorce was settled for an undisclosed amount. In March 2007, McMillan sued Plummer and his lawyer for $40 million citing an intentional strategy to embarrass and humiliate her during the divorce proceedings.[3]

Now a bookray!

The order so far is:

1)QueenSissi (Portugal)
2)Aspen72 (Finland)
3)Stellarv (Brazil)(the book is here!)
4)Rockbird (U.S.A.)
5) ----
6)Beetlechickee (Australia)

Happy reading!!

Sent this evening to QueenSissi, in Portugal!
Your Majesty, enjoy the book... :)

Got here today! Thank you Bookworm-lady!

I am so sorry for taking such a long time reading it but it took me a while to read it. Besides being a thick book I had to struggle to get into the book, which i eventually did and enjoyed doing so.

Sending it forward tomorrow!

Arrived safely today, thanks.
I'm having couple of books in queue before this one.

I found this story quite entertaining, but I must say that most of the books that I read are much _deeper_ than this one was. The writing was easy to read, sometimes slow and boring (lots of f*** -words, too, which started to be irritating at one point), but having all the characters in turn telling from their point of view gave some variety and excitement, too.
I feel this book was kind of insight to American lifestyle, and I found it quite surprising how much these characters were moving from one state to another, long distances - is it really so common? Being at around the same age myself as the book characters were, made me notice how lucky I am - this was the best thought that I've got from this book - and only because of that it was worth reading :)

Hope to get this book posted this week - let's hope pm's work.

Edit 6.3.2008; Mailed today. Bon voyage for the book!
#13 in Keep them moving 2008 challenge

Made its way safely to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with a lovely Finland picture inside. :-)

Thanks for sharing!

I also had a tough time getting into the book, but once I got into it, it was a very fun and light reading. I'm getting to the age of the main characters and identified myself with some of the situations. It was good to see at what point I have to change in a short period of time not to make their same mistakes and to preserve what they did right.

Now I'm looking for the DVD to watch the movie, which I had watched when I was younger.