How Stella Got Her Groove Back
By Terry McMillan
Penguin Audiobooks,
$25, 5 hours
ISBN 0671521306
Review by Sukey Howard
Hey, Girl! Terry McMillan is back on the scene with another winning bestseller. The waiting is over, she's exhaled and breathed life into Stella, the 42-year-old star of How Stella Got Her Groove Back. Stella, who describes herself as a "fancy-shmancy investment analyst," is soured on love and marriage, off sex, and very possibly having a closet midlife crisis. Told in McMillan's vibrant vernacular -- and read with verve by the author -- the story of Stella's cure is fast, funny, and touching. You want her to get her groove back and you want McMillan to go on reading -- she's great, and you kind of hope that she's Stella.
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