In Terry McMillan’s New Novel, a Middle-Aged Optometrist Decides to Give Her Life a Makeover | Box of delight | Scoop.it
To enter the singular world of Terry McMillan, best known for her groundbreaking 1992 novel “Waiting to Exhale,” is to step into a parallel universe where money is a relative nonissue, and love and sex — the lack of, the quality of, the pursuit of — dominate most conversations, where friends are never too busy to drop everything and speak some sassy, nurturing truth.