Waiting to Exhale

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Waiting to Exhale

novel by McMillan

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Terry McMillan
” With her best-selling novels Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, she tapped into a previously overlooked market of readers of contemporary African American fiction. Featuring modern, relatable female protagonists looking for love and adventure, McMillan’s books spoke to the experiences of many Black women. In…
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” With her best-selling novels Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, she tapped into a previously overlooked market of readers of contemporary African American fiction. Featuring modern, relatable female protagonists looking for love and adventure, McMillan’s books spoke to the experiences of many Black women. In…
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Terry McMillan
Literary success and readership
…Her third novel, the blockbuster Waiting to Exhale (1992), followed the romantic ups and downs of four middle-class Black women, each of whom is looking for the love of a worthy man. Its film adaptation of the same name was released in 1995. Directed by Forest Whitaker, it featured Whitney…
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…Her third novel, the blockbuster Waiting to Exhale (1992), followed the romantic ups and downs of four middle-class Black women, each of whom is looking for the love of a worthy man. Its film adaptation of the same name was released in 1995. Directed by Forest Whitaker, it featured Whitney…
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Forest Whitaker
… (1995), based on the 1992 novel by Terry McMillan; Hope Floats (1998); and First Daughter (2004). In addition, he played Erie in a brief 2016 Broadway revival of the short Eugene O’Neill play Hughie.
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… (1995), based on the 1992 novel by Terry McMillan; Hope Floats (1998); and First Daughter (2004). In addition, he played Erie in a brief 2016 Broadway revival of the short Eugene O’Neill play Hughie.
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