Waiting to Exhale (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Terry McMillan
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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
Over the course of a year, Savannah Jackson, Robin Stokes, Bernadine Harris, and Gloria Matthews, the main characters in Terry McMillan’s lively novel WAITING TO EXHALE, deal with children, divorce, jobs, parents, and each other, while waiting for the man of their dreams, or a close facsimile. Most of the prospects they meet, however, turn out to be married, self-centered, and/or losers. Like other 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, and occasionally...
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