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Why
we chose this book
It is so easy to draw strength and courage from Terry McMillan's
characters. I am also always amazed at her ability to make me laugh in
the middle of tears. Her books make it impossible to feel alone. What
more can you ask for? ~Beth
From
Booklist
Forty-four-year-old
Marilyn feels as if her life is spiraling out of control. She has a
husband who is adrift in his career and is showing all the signs of having
an affair. Marilyn is also juggling a troublesome live-in mother-in-law, a
mother who may be developing Alzheimer's, and a foster sister who is
battling drug addiction and neglecting her two children. Meanwhile, she
must struggle with her own personal decisions: should she continue working
part time at the craft store or heed her long-neglected dreams of a career
in art? Should she stay married to boring Leon, the engineer, or take up
again with her first husband, who is suddenly back on the scene and
available? A pregnancy scare intensifies her need to separate her roles as
a caregiver and as a woman with her own identity. She finds solace and
help from her girlfriends and an unlikely source--her mother-in-law.
McMillan's inimitable style is on display in this novel about a woman
facing midlife crises on every front. Vanessa Bush
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From the Publisher
Since
Terry McMillan’s breakout novel, Waiting to Exhale, surged onto the
bestseller lists, her irreverent, hilarious, and pitch-perfect tales of
women’s lives and contemporary issues have captivated critics and
readers alike. With The Interruption of Everything, McMillan takes on
the fault lines of midlife and family life and reminds us once again of
the redeeming power of friendship.
Marilyn
Grimes, wife and mother of three, has made a career of deferring her
dreams to build a suburban California home and lifestyle with her
workaholic husband, Leon. She also troubleshoots for her grown kids, cares
for her live-in mother-in-law (and elderly poodle, Snuffy), keeps tabs on
her girlfriends Paulette and Bunny and her own aging mother and foster
sister— and holds down a part- time job. But at forty-four, Marilyn’s
got too much on her plate and nothing to feed her passion. She feels like
she’s about ready to jump. She’s just not sure where.
Highly
entertaining, deeply human, a page-turner full of heart and soul, this
time McMillan turns her eye to the question of how one woman can start
putting her own needs higher on the to-do list while not shortchanging
those she loves. The Interruption of Everything is a triumphant testament
to the fact that the detour is the path, and living life "by the
numbers" never quite adds up.
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