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Waiting to Exhale
Terry McMillan, 1992
Penguin Publishing
416 pp.
ISBN-13:
9780451233424


Summary
Four African-American women console and support one another in a complex friendship that helps each of them face the middle of her life as a single woman.

A wise, earthy story of a friendship between four African American women who lean on each other while “waiting to exhale”: waiting for that man who will take their breath away. (From the publisher.)