Terry McMillan

Terry McMillan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and The Interruption of Everything. She is the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. Each of McMillan’s nine previous novels was a New York Times bestseller, and four have been made into movies. In It’s Not All Downhill From Here (Ballantine Books), she introduces us to Loretha Curry. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty-supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband whose moves still surprise. She might be carrying a few more pounds than she should, but she is not one of those women who think her best days are behind her—and she’s determined to prove everyone else with that outdated view of aging wrong. It’s not all downhill from here. Salon magazine praised it, calling it “A deeply moving book that gently balances the realities—both personal and societal—of aging with a hopeful message: It’s never too late to change how you’re living your life.”