terry mcmillan book i almost forgot about you

She’s completely alienated from her twin sister and her alcoholic daughter her son lives in Japan, and she’s never met her grandkids her 86-year-old mother is eager to leave the nursing home many people in her life need money and plan to get it from her. Roto-Rooter.” After Loretha’s world takes a devastating hit in Chapter 1, all her problems become much more pressing. Speaking of hot husbands and hotel rooms, the little blue pill plays a humorous role throughout the novel, which is sprinkled with comments like “And he knows how to take just the right amount of Viagra, not like Mr. Loretha has told Carl that she’s sick of parties, so the dear man surprises her with a weekend at a favorite Palm Springs resort, where less happy surprises await. Here we meet her gal pals: Sadie, the church lady who might be a lesbian Korynthia, the gorgeous 6-foot-1-inch-tall exercise instructor Lucky, married to a white architect and with a weight problem like Loretha’s and Poochie, a cruise-loving widow rolling in dough, now living in Las Vegas to care for her ailing mother. Southern California beauty supply mogul Loretha Curry is about to celebrate her 68th birthday with her doting, still-hot third husband, and she begins by watching the DVD of her 67th. In her 10th novel, McMillan ( I Almost Forgot About You, 2016, etc.) joins long-career novelists such as Philip Roth and Anne Tyler as she sails her protagonists with her into older age. A close-knit group of 60-something black women deals with loss, illness, addicted family members, and the never-ending challenges of diet and exercise.

Terry mcmillan book i almost forgot about you