Waiting to Exhale (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Terry McMillan
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Denver, Colorado, and Phoenix, Arizona
- Principal Characters: Savannah Jackson, Bernadine Harris, Robin Stokes, Gloria Matthews, Taric
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Blacks, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Sex or sexuality, Friendship, West, U.S., Women’s issues, Single parents or single-parent families, Women, Single people, Arizona, Colorado, Southwest, 1990’s, AIDS
- Locales: Phoenix, AZ, Denver, CO
The Novel
In Waiting to Exhale, the four central female characters are members of an organization called Black Women on the Move (BWOM). The problem is that these bright, attractive, and loving women have themselves been on the move too long. They see themselves coming near to middle age fearing that they will not be able to find or sustain a sexual relationship with a black man whom they consider to be eligible. Savannah, with her mind set on a career and upward mobility, has been in three live-in relationships over a period of nine years, and she is holding her breath...
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