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Also by Terry McMillan:

It Was the Way She Said It, September 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
It's Not All Downhill From Here, April 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
I Almost Forgot About You, June 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Who Asked You?, September 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Getting To Happy, August 2011
Paperback
Getting to Happy, September 2010
Hardcover
The Interruption of Everything, August 2006
Trade Size
Interruption of Everything, July 2005
Hardcover
Waiting To Exhale, December 2004
Paperback
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, June 1997
Paperback (reprint)

GETTING TO HAPPY
By: Terry McMillan

Penguin
August 2011
On Sale: August 2, 2011
Featuring: Savannah; Robin; Gloria
416 pages
ISBN: 0451233344
EAN: 9780451233349
Paperback
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Women's Fiction

An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale—the novel that changed African American fiction forever.

Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale was more than just a bestselling novel-its publication was a watershed moment in literary history. McMillan's sassy and vibrant story about four African American women struggling to find love and their place in the world touched a cultural nerve, inspired a blockbuster film, and generated a devoted audience.

Now, McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later. Each is at her own midlife crossroads: Savannah has awakened to the fact that she's made too many concessions in her marriage, and decides to face life single again-at fifty-one. Bernadine has watched her megadivorce settlement dwindle, been swindled by her husband number two, and conned herself into thinking that a few pills will help distract her from her pain. Robin has an all-American case of shopaholism, while the big dream of her life-to wear a wedding dress- has gone unrealized. And for years, Gloria has taken happiness and security for granted. But being at the wrong place at the wrong time can change everything. All four are learning to heal past hurts and to reclaim their joy and their dreams; but they return to us full of spirit, sass, and faith in one another. They've exhaled: now they are learning to breathe.