Waiting to Exhale Summary
Terry Mcmillan

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Critical Review by Donnella Canty

633 words, approx. 3 pages

In the following review, Canty offers high praise for Waiting to Exhale. Move over Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, make room for Terry McMillan. McMillan will need a lot of room on the bench of elite,... Read more

Critical Review by Publishers Weekly

256 words, approx. 1 pages

In the following review, the critic offers praise for Waiting to Exhale. A racy, zesty, irreverent and absorbing book with broad mainstream appeal, McMillan's third novel (after Mama and Disapp... Read more

Critical Review by Charles R. Larson

837 words, approx. 3 pages

In the following review, Larson offers favorable assessment of Waiting to Exhale. In the climactic scene of Terry McMillan's wickedly acerbic third novel, Waiting to Exhale, four African-Americ... Read more

Critical Review by Paula C. Barnes

434 words, approx. 2 pages

In the following review, Barnes offers praise for Waiting to Exhale, which she describes as "an important book" that "traces the problems of 'real' women in a real w... Read more

Critical Review by Frances Stead Sellers

557 words, approx. 2 pages

In the following review, Sellers finds only "modest" literary merit in Waiting to Exhale, but notes its appeal among "glitzy, commercial women's novels." Terry McMil... Read more

Critical Review by Darryl Pinckney

4,757 words, approx. 16 pages

In the following excerpt, Pinckney praises the sincerity, force, and humor of Waiting to Exhale and discusses the novel's place within contemporary African-American literature and culture. Fann... Read more