Description
Getting to Happy
Contributor(s): McMillan, Terry (Author)
ISBN: 0451233344 EAN: 9780451233349
Publisher: New American Library
US SRP: $ 16.00 US Our Price $ 12.94
Binding: Paperback: 448 pages
Pub Date: June 07, 2011
Annotation: Fifteen years after Waiting to Exhale, McMillan brings back Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin now in their 50s for a disappointing and uninspired outing.
As the story opens, Gloria is very happy, Savannah believes she might be happy, Bernadine is fighting addiction and losing ground, and single mother Robin is trying to resign herself to being alone while things at her job begin to unravel.
Within the first few chapters, Gloria and Savannah are struck by disaster, and things go rapidly downhill from there for everyone. Most of the misery has to do with men who lie, steal, cheat, or disappear, or with adult children who face similar problems.
Unfortunately, the beloved cast isn't given a story worthy of them; instead, this reunion reads like a catalogue of personal catastrophes annotated with very long, rambling discussions, with more emphasis on simple drama than character.