Synopsis
This novel revolves around the stories of four African-American women, friends who support each other while waiting for the man who will take their breath away. This book concerns themes of friendship among women, family, and the pursuit of good, honest love.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2006-01-03 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 432 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
Four thirty-something 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. Reprint.
Industry Reviews
"A tough love letter to black males everywhere."
Book Jacket - Charles Johnson
"Terry McMillan's heroines are so well drawn that by the end of the novel, the reader is completely at home with the four of them. They observe men--and contemporary America--with bawdy humor, occasional melancholy and great affection....Reading WAITING TO EXHALE is like being in the company of a great friend. It is thought-provoking, thoroughly entertaining, and very, very comforting."
New York Times Book Review - Susan Isaacs (05/31/1992)
"No doubt when this book is published, the author will hear once again--as Ntozake Shange did for FOR COLORED GIRLS, Alice Walker for THE COLOR PURPLE, and Gloria Naylor for THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE--the cries that the Black man has been wronged, the Black man has been dogged. I disagree: Terry McMillan has crafted a well-written, truthful, and funny story of four African-American women--four 'sistuhs' who are trying to make it in this world we all live in--and the sometimes volatile world of the Black female-Black male relationships."
Book Jacket - Spike Lee
"She has all the immediacy, wit, and vitality of Spike Lee, but novelist Terry goes one step further: with salty humor and a real affinity for her characters, she captures the urban black woman of the . Uprooted, restless, smart, sexual, flawed, exasperating, cynical, and at times, painfully funny, the protagonists of WAITING TO EXHALE are compelling in their are definite survivors."
Jessica Hagedorn
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