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Exhaling, years later

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The last time we looked in on Savannah, Robin, Bernadine and Gloria — the protagonists of Terri McMillan’s breakthrough novel Waiting to Exhale — they were facing down life’s challenges, four single black women in Phoenix, grappling with family and relationship issues and finding solace in each other. Fast forward about 15 years: In McMillan’s Getting to Happy, the best-selling author updates the lives of this quartet and the strategies each woman uses to cope with life in a new decade — the new decade of the wider world and their own new decades. Lisa Page of The Washington Post reviews.  
                       
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