For those of you that remember the 1995 movie "Waiting to Exhale", gear up for Terry McMillan's follow-up novel called "Getting to Happy".
"Getting to Happy" picks up 15 years later from where the women left off in "Waiting to Exhale". Throughout the book the characters' stories leave details so that the reader can catch up on what they've missed these past few years.
Terry McMillan is the same author that brought you "How Stella Got Her Groove Back", a book based on her own romance with a young man she met in Jamaica whom she eventually married. Although Stella did get her groove back, Terry was later surrounded by drama during a bitter 2005 divorce in which she discovered that her prince charming was, in fact, gay.
(Sidenote: has anybody seen Terry's ex-husband in an interview? How could Terry not know that he was gay??? He wear wearing lipgloss and his eyebrows were waxed to perfection! Hmmm...)
Do you guys think you'll check this book out? I probably will, I'm curious to see if Terry's personal bitterness shows up in the book...we'll see!!!
waiting to exhale is a classic. hopefully a sequel can measure up. and they shouldnt even think about making a sequel movie if the cast isnt the same! i dont want them to mess up a good thing...
ReplyDeletelmaoooo at the comment about terry's ex.