Terry McMillan’s newest book, “It’s Not All Downhill From Here” has everything: friendship, family, sex and race. NPRCodeSwitch’s interview with McMillan delves into living your fullest life, even up to your “last minute.”
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—wildly popular books about black women that also became wildly popular movies. Her new novel follows the main character, Loretha Curry, and her crew of very close friends. These women are all dealing with different issues: loss, health problems and fights with loved ones. But there's also romance mixed in; the characters are aging, but they're still living their lives to the fullest.
The book comes out on March 31, and it has everything: friendship, family, sex and race. So I called up Terry McMillan, whom I've known for years, to talk about all of it—and, of course, what it means to get older, especially in these uncertain times.For people who are not familiar with the book, give us an elevator recap of what's happening between the covers ofMatthew Jordan Smith/Courtesy of Penguin Random HouseLoretha is the main character, but she has a host of friends.
I have watched women over the years—my mother, my aunts, my friends and teenage girls—and all the stuff that we go through. Our lives are hard. We have to manipulate and second-guess folks, and we still want to be happy, and be sexual beings, and smart and educated. We're not chicks. We're women and girls.
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