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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. 100,000 first printing. Major ad/promo. Tour.
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By Elvira Morton (Philadelphia, PA USA)
When Waiting to Exhale was published, it was a book we needed. Tired of depictions of slavery, Jim Crow, and ghetto life, we wanted stories dealing with our newly found affluence. McMillan gave us a buddy novel that showed us in a different light.
Attempting to read this book now is painful. The story is still interesting but the execution is amateurish.
By Bonnie Brody (Fairbanks, Alaska)
This book is a page-turner of varied quality, not consistent in emotive or story line content.
It deals with the lives of four black women in Arizona. All are single and looking for a man.
The dialogue is stilted and the characters portrayed, at times, in a shallow and almost stereotypical manner. However, despite the novel's weaknesses, I could not help but care for the characters.
By Crysette Manning (White Plains, NY)
This book was really better than the movie version.
I was raised on watching that movie with my mother
and I was surprised how different the movie "Waiting to
Exhale" is from the movie.
There's another book I also just got done reading by
Jackie Christian called "Love Is the Drug" and the lead
character is REAL ROXANNE. She's a black girl and a movie
critic named after the famous rapper and that book is FIRE!
I loved reading that this weekend too.
By Sandra Brazier (Beautiful New Hampshire, USA)
Because of the subject matter, I thought that this book would be dull. On the outside, it seems to be about "getting a man." But the primary theme of this paperback is the importance of friends. As the four friends struggle in their efforts to find "a good man", they find that their girlfriends are always there, no matter what. They help each other through life's changes and challenges. This story is funny in parts and entertaining overall. The characters are realistic enough that the reader actually cares what happens to them. Enjoy this book, just for fun.
By JKE (Milford, NH United States)
I liked Terry McMillan's "The Interruption of Everything", so I was really looking forward to reading this book- but it was one of the worst, most frustrating books I've ever read. First of all, the writing is on about a sixth-grade level. Example: "...Charles asked me if I wanted to dance. I said yes. So we danced. He danced like a man who was sure of himself. He watched me. I watched him. He smiled at me. I smiled at him." That's when I rolled my eyes and gave up. Unfortunately it was on page 365!! From then on I scanned the rest of the pages, just to satisfy my curiosity about what would happen to the rest of these characters.
Secondly, most of the characters are complete morons, except for Gloria, who seemed real to me. (Working mom, single, trying to do the best for her son...) The other three jump into bed with EVERY man they meet, usually within the first three hours of meeting him. Then they whine and moan about how there are no good men out there. Well, DUH!!! Perhaps this is the point of the book, self-fufilling prophecy.
I do like the title. It describes that feeling of waiting while what you want (husband, job, baby, etc.) hasn't happened yet. But this book was a disappointing waste of time.
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