Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan’s third novel, was an instant popular success when it was first published in 1992.The book found wide acceptance, both critical and public, largely because of ...

Waiting to Exhale unfolds through a series of alternating chapters, each primarily written from the perspective of one of the four main characters. Savannah and Robin narrate their chapters, …

"Waiting to Exhale" features four main characters: Savannah Jackson, Bernadine Harris, Robin Stokes, and Gloria Matthews. Savannah and Robin narrate their own stories, while …

Waiting to Exhale is an odd yet brilliant fictional representation of issues and concerns affecting middle-class African American women in the late twentieth century. The novel is odd in that the ...

Waiting to Exhale was the first of McMillan’s novels to achieve “cross-over” success beyond an African American readership. Professional women were intrigued by McMillan’s depiction of ...

Review of Waiting to Exhale, by Terry McMillan. 239 (March 23, 1992): 58. Praises the novel for its portrayal of four women bound together in “warm, supportive friendship,” its authenticity in ...

Waiting to Exhale is both descriptive and prescriptive, an attempt to diagnose and to cure. The alternating voices in McMillan’s book give substance and reality to her characters. First-person ...

SOURCE: A review of Waiting to Exhale, in Belles Lettres, Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall, 1992, pp. 56-7. [In the following review, Barnes offers praise for Waiting to Exhale, which she describes as "an ...

Waiting to Exhale combines two of McMillan’s earlier fictional concerns. She creates credible black women and also includes a variety of black male characters. Some of these, such as …

Waiting to Exhale is McMillan’s third published novel. Mama, her first, was published in 1987, and Disappearing Acts, her second, was published in 1989. Unlike other black women writers …