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How Stella Got Her Groove Back
 

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

by Terry McMillan

The author of Waiting to Exhale checks in again with a fresh, exuberant novel. Stella Payne is a Superwoman who has everything--except a man to rock her world, something she's convinced she can well do without. On a spur-of-the-moment Jamaican vacation she meets Winston, a man half her age, and finds, to her dismay, that her world is indeed well and truly rocked. Stella soon realizes that she's... (read more)

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Liked It

Nardsbaby
  • Rated 5 stars

“Terry McMillan writes more than a love story here. We meet Stella a 42 year old high powered African American woman whose been divorced 3 years and has an adorable 11 year old son Quincy. All Stella's life is about is being a dedicated mother and career woman, that changes when she's fired. Quincy goes to visit dad and Stella and her "FRIEND" decide she needs sometime for herself to do something fun. The very rich details about her 9 day trip to Jamaica make you feel as if you're lying right...”

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Didn’t Like It

angela m
  • Rated 2 stars

“This is easy reading about an African-American Bay Area woman who brings a little Jamaica back into her life. But as the author herself says," I don't know what all the hoopla is about and why everybody thinks she's such a hot writer because her s**t is kind of weak when you get right down to it and this book has absolutely no literary merit...and she uses entirely too much profanity"! (p. 85). Well said.”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.6875 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 3.5 stars
  

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  • locs

    locs said:

    “great book., after reading it I took a trip to Jamacia to find my Winston,but,,no such luck.”

    posted Thursday, December 27 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
  • NeNe

    nene said:

    “Talk about going against the odds. Terry McMillan did an excellent job of showing the emotional process of building a relationship with a younger man and coming to an acceptance of "it is what it is." ”

    posted Thursday, December 27 2007
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