Perhaps you’ve been under a rock lately, but Terry McMillan is at it again. Over fifteen years ago we waited with baited breath to hear about the lives of four friends; Savannah, Bernadine, Robin, and Gloria. The story was about four African American women who went through exhausting emotional trials due to the men in their lives. From the book came a movie and now the friends are back in the sequel “Getting to Happy”.
The energy was high as the crowd gathered at Borders in Dearborn this evening. Ms. McMillan a Port Huron, MI native was also greeted by some of her childhood friends and family. As over a hundred people of standing room only listened intently, hanging on to every word as she read as if we were sitting in her living room. She joked around a little as she read the first chapter of her new book “Getting to Happy”.
Ms. McMillan told the crowd after being asked, when she decided to write “Getting to Happy”, that she hadn’t intended to write a sequel. Her intentions were to explore relationships and dissatisfaction. She spoke on how women everywhere were being hurt and even how they were stuck for many years because of that hurt. She felt like many women in their 50’s and 60’s were acting as if life was over mainly because of the men in their lives and how that men should be “a semi-colon and not a period”. It made her angry to see women in that condition.
Ms. McMillan also spoke about grief and dealing with that grief and not allowing someone to tell you to simply “get over it”. She says, “Everyone handles grief in their own way”. She also touched on the issues of her Divorce and how that now she and her ex-husband aren’t “BFF’s but are friends”.
If you are looking to buy the book and get your copy signed, Ms. McMillan will be in Southfield tomorrow, September 17th at Sam’s Club on Eight Mile Rd from 12:00pm until 2:oopm. That location will conclude her tour in the Detroit Metro area.
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