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Getting to happy : a novel / Terry McMillan.

McMillan, Terry. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780451233349 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 0451233344 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xvi, 432 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: Berkley trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Berkley, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"The sequel to Waiting to exhale"--Cover.
Includes author's note on page [xi]. Includes a selection from Waiting to exhale, prequel to Getting to happy (p. [429]-432).
Summary, etc.:
A sequel to "Waiting to Exhale" picks up fifteen years later to find Savannah contemplating divorce, Bernadine succumbing to painkiller addiction after a second husband's swindle, Robin falling into shopaholism, and Gloria confronting profound change after a fateful event.
Subject: African American women > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Phoenix (Ariz.) > Fiction.
Genre: Urban fiction.
Psychological fiction.

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at GRPL.

Holds

0 current holds with 1 total copy.

Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
West Leonard Fiction McMillan (Text) 31307025666332 Fiction Checked out 08/04/2025

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Syndetic Solutions - Author Notes for ISBN Number 9780451233349
Getting to Happy
Getting to Happy
by McMillan, Terry
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Author Notes

Getting to Happy

Terry McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan on October 18, 1951. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986, studied film at Columbia University, and enrolled in the Harlem Writer's Guild. Her books include Disappearing Acts, Mama, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, Getting to Happy, and Who Asked You? Her books Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back were adapted as major motion pictures. (Bowker Author Biography)


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