McMillan
If you’ve spent the past 18 years wondering what Terry McMillan‘s memorable heroines from the 1992 hit Waiting to Exhale are up to now that they’ve hit middle age, the answers are coming in September, when Viking will publish Getting to Happy.
We have to admit to some surprise over this announcement, since in our 2005 interview with McMillan about her last novel, The Interruption of Everything, she didn’t seem too crazy about Exhale‘s characters.
“[T]hose women make me sick! They seem like such whiners, except for one,” she says. “But the thing was, at that time, there were so many women that I knew, myself included, who looked up and realized, gee whiz, what happened to those husbands we were supposed to be getting? Not only husbands, we didn’t even have dates! Back then, it was kind of important because we were in it, but then it kind of came and went. But they don’t let you forget!”
At the time, McMillan had reason to be testy—she was facing a messy, public divorce from her husband of six years, Jonathan Plummer, who had announced he was gay. When she filed for divorce, he fought to have their prenup declared invalid, claiming to be the inspiration for the bestseller How Stella Got Her Groove Back. So perhaps the title of Getting to Happy has a meaning for both McMillan and her characters.
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