Terry McMillan Proves That ‘It’s Not All Downhill From Here’
Her latest novel is a testament to her commitment to Black women’s lives and to her individual craft
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6 min readApr 1, 2020
In 1995, my nine-year-old self watched as Whitney Houston, Lelah Rochon, Loretta Devine, and Angela Bassett took the screen in Waiting to Exhale, the eponymous adaptation of Terry McMillan’s 1992…