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Meet Terry McMillan
Club Book with Terry McMillan
Saturday, September 18, 2 PMBrookdale Library, 6125 Shingle Creek Pkwy., Brooklyn Center
The author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short, Terry McMillan has had immeasurable impact on African-American literature. Author of more than ten books, McMillan made her fiction debut with Mama, which won both the Doubleday New Voices in Fiction Award and the American Book Award. Her books have sold millions of copies throughout the world and been made into successful movies. Recipient of Essence Magazine’s Lifetime Achievement Award, McMillan's ability to capture the dilemmas facing modern-day women with humor and verve has led to a worldwide following. Her newest release, Getting to Happy (September 2010), revisits the four protagonists of Waiting to Exhale fifteen years later, each is at her own midlife crossroads, but still full of the same spirit and sass.
What do the critics say?
"No single writer today has documented the African-American experience from a contemporary black women's point of view like Terry McMillan.” – Essence
“Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read... who makes me glad to be a woman.” – Washington Post
"Warm and witty, sincere and heartfelt.” - Amazon.com