" The way she has been seen--or not seen--has informed her lens on the world her entire life
spanning four decades that "speaks to today's social and political moment as directly as this morning's headlines" (NPR)
and forgiveness--from a writer whose "spellbinding
from the Revolutionary Action Movement to the insurgent poetics of Aimé and Suzanne Césaire
A mythic love story set in Trinidad
How Stella Got Her Groove Back Single Parent " The way she hasHow Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life and what she must risk to do it. Stella Payne is forty two, divorced, a high powered investment analyst, mother of eleven year old Quincy and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to