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"Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy -- if not less of it -- doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do." —Terry McMillan
Author Photograph: Stephanie Rausser
Originally from Port Huron, Terry McMillan, with her phenomenal New York Times bestseller Waiting to Exhale, has become one of the most important American novelists writing today.
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Terry McMillan received her B.A. in Journalism from the University of California at
Berkeley, and attended the MFA Film Program at Columbia University. Macmillan's first
novel, Mama, published in 1987, received a National Book Award by the Before Columbus
Foundation. She has been awarded a 1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
in literature, a 1986 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and the
Doubleday/Columbia University Literary Fellowship. She was a three-time fellow at
Yaddo Artist Colony and The MacDowell Colony. She has been a Visiting Professor of
English at the University of Wyoming and Stanford University and an Associate Professor of
English at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
 It's OK if You're Clueless: and 23 More Tips for
the College BoundClick to order via Amazon
Hardcover: 64 pages From bestselling author Terry McMillan, life wisdom for high school graduates and those who love them When her son Solomon graduated from high school, Terry McMillan was asked to be the guest speaker at the commencement ceremony. Determined not to be dull or redundant, Terry thought back to when she was stepping out into the world for the first time and the things she wished people had told her. Printing up what she thought were the most important tips for these new graduates, Terry was surprised to find that not only were these homemade pamphlets a hit with the students, but their parents clamored for copies too. Now with It’s Ok If You’re Clueless, Terry McMillan brings her trademark wit and sass to every son and daughter about to take their first tentative steps into adulthood. Offering such nuggets as “Sit up straight,” “Don’t listen to your parents,” and “Bring your laundry home,” as well as “See the world” and “Read anything and everything,” It’s Ok If You’re Clueless is packed with the commonsense advice and conversational tone that have made her novels classic bestsellers. Equal parts witty and wise, It’s Ok If You’re Clueless is the perfect gift for the college bound this May.
ISBN: 0670031445 Since Terry McMillan's breakout novel Waiting To Exhale surged onto the bestseller lists, critics and readers alike have been captivated by her irreverent, often-hilarious take on the issues faced by contemporary women. With The Interruption of Everything she picks up, pitch-perfect, the dilemmas of midlife: an empty nest. Hormones gone wild. Too many irrelevant demands and too little room to breathe. Marilyn Grimes is about ready to jump out of her skin. She's the consummate wife and mother of three grown kids. She's got a no-great-shakes-but-a-good-provider of a husband, Leon; and a live-in mother-in-law, Arthurine, who comes with a bingo-playing beau, Prezell, and an elderly pooch, Snuffy. Marilyn's two best friends, Paulette and Bunny, are the quintessential take-no-prisoners, vintage McMillan girlfriends who will be there when Marilyn jumps, but . . . she's just not sure exactly where that will be . . . or when. First, she needs to remember what she used to love and call back some of her own postponed dreams. But just as Marilyn's plans for making changes are taking shape, life comes up with a few twists of its own. Suddenly Marilyn must reinvent just about everything: marriage, friendship, family-and not least of all, herself. The Interruption of Everything is a triumphant testament to the fact that the detour is the path, and living life "by the numbers" never quite adds up.
Format: Hardcover, 448pp. Much-heralded and long awaited, Terry McMillan's tour-de-force novel introduces the Price family-matriarch Viola, her sometimes-husband Cecil, and their four adult kids, each of whom sees life-and one another-through thick and thin, and entirely on their own terms. With her hallmark exuberance and cast of characters so sassy, resilient, and full of life that they breathe, dream, and shout right off the page, the author of the phenomenal best-sellers Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back has given us a novel that takes us ever-further into the hearts, minds, and souls of America-and gives us six more friends we never want to leave. Read an AALBC Review of A Day Late and a Dollar Short written by Paige Turner |
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Publisher: NAL/Dutton Stella Payne is a successful 42-year-old investment analyst and divorced mother of an 11-year-old son, Quincy. But Stella has begun to feel that her life needs some "groove." On the spur of the moment, she plans a trip to Jamaica to relax and escape from her routine. She meets a man, half her age, whose honesty and physical charm challenge her perceptions of what is acceptable and force her to rethink and re-prioritize her image of herself and her life. Once she returns from her vacation, she recognizes that her life has only been satisfying because it is what was expected from a woman her age. Stella accomplishes her mission of doing something totally out of character by taking her solo vacation "and" she succeeds at putting more than just a "groove" back into her life. The stream-of-consciousness narration that is utilized for most of this story is a bit awkward at times. McMillan's style here differs markedly from that of "Waiting to Exhale", which brought her much "girlfriend" popularity; yet she just may connect with an untapped readership. |
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Publisher: Pocket Books "McMillan's zesty first novel" Review from Library Journal : |
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Terry McMillan (Editor), John Edgar Wideman (Photographer) ISBN: 0140116974 A striking collection of works from authors both established and emerging, this is the
first original anthology of African-American writing in over a decade. Featured
contributors include: J. California Cooper,
Marita Golden, Gloria
Naylor, Darryl Pinckney, Ntozake Shange, Alice
Walker, Ishmael Reed, Terry McMillan, and many others.
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Publisher: Pocket Books Review of Waiting to Exhale Review from Library Journal : |
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Publisher: Pocket Books Disappearing Acts, like Terry McMillan's first novel, Mama, is an energetic and earthy book that takes place wholly within the confines of an intense relationship. While the narrator of Mama sounded like a character in the story, in this book McMillan uses two alternating voices that speak directly to the reunder. The whole world is filtered through the self-naming, self-mythologizing first-person monologue--from racism to masturbation, parental conflicts to staying on a diet. And because there's no one obvious for Zora Banks or Franklin Swift to tell it to--they are loners in every way--the question is whether these folks are for real. In many ways they are quite ordinary, in other ways they are hardly tangible. |
The Interruption of
Everything
How
Stella Got Her Groove Back
Mama
Breaking
Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Writers
Disappearing
Acts
Related Links
Terry's Official Website
http://www.terrymcmillan.com/
Terry's Blog
http://www.comment-terry.blogspot.com/
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