Waiting to exhale / Terry McMillan.
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- text
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- volume
- 9780451233424
- 0451233425
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Main Library | Fiction | MCMILLAN TERRY | Available | 33111010488381 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and It's Not All Downhill From Here .
When the men in their lives prove less than reliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and enlightening friendship as they struggle to regain stability and an identity they don't have to share with anyone. Because for the first time in a long time, their dreams are finally OFF hold....
"Hilarious, irreverent...Reading Waiting to Exhale is like being in the company of a great friend...thought-provoking, thoroughly entertaining, and very, very comforting."-- The New York Times Book Review
"First New American Library trade pbk. printing (updated ed.)."--Title page verso.
Includes a selection from Getting to happy, sequel to Waiting to exhale (p. 459-462).
Not Dick Clark -- Suddenly single -- Forget what I just said -- Unanswered prayers -- Fire -- Fat -- Interstate lust -- Discovery -- Venus in virgo -- Happy hour -- Freedom of expression -- Steam -- Control -- It ain't about nothin' -- BWOTM -- Why are you here? -- Rebounding -- Killing time -- New territory -- Closer to the bone -- Drunk -- Monsoon -- To heaven and back -- Still waves in it -- Unreasonable requests -- Friendship -- The weight of all things -- Back to life.
Four African-American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps each of them face the middle of her life as a single woman.