Exhale, Terry McMillan fans: Your wait is over. The Interruption of Everything (Viking Press, $25.95), her sizzling new novel, may be her best yet. Here, the best-selling author opens up about marriage, menopause and the two special men in her life.
Terry McMillan speaks the way she writes, with a snappy rhythm that is at once playful and direct. There’s a musicality to her sentences as she bounces from point to point, extends the beat with anecdotes and then—amazingly—brings it on home. Whether she’s writing about Arizona girlfriends who can’t get a decent date in Waiting to Exhale (Viking, $22.95); an older woman loving a younger man in 1996’s How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Viking, $23.95); or the pain of losing a mother to an asthma attack, which she movingly detailed in her last novel, A Day Late and a Dollar Short (Viking, $25.95), McMillan’s life informs her work so that the characters are rendered with heart and soul.
In The Interruption of Everything, McMillan, 53, uses her fast-paced signature style to immerse readers in the chaotic world of Marilyn Grimes, a fortysomething perimenopausal wife and mother in suburban northern California who’s trying to keep the lid on her discontent—and her sanity—without much help from her family. Here McMillan talks about Interruption, her writing process, and life as a best-selling author: read more @
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