Waiting to Exhale (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Terry McMillan
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1990
- Setting: Phoenix, Arizona
- Principal Characters: Savannah Jackson, Bernadine Harris, Robin Stokes, Gloria Matthews, John Jackson, Russell, Tarik
- 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
Terry McMillan’s engaging third novel, Waiting to Exhale (she also edited the well-received Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction, 1990) follows four single, black women through the course of 1990 as they deal with children, divorce, jobs, parents, and each other, all the while hoping to find the men of their dreams. Like the black women in McMillan’s two previous novels, Mama (1987) and Disappearing Acts (1989), the women in Waiting to Exhale are urban, smart, blunt speaking, sometimes tough, generally more insightful...
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