How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Terry McMillan
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Terry McMillan
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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Author: Terry McMillan

Narrator: Terry McMillan

Abridged: 2 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 01/01/2004


Synopsis

How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life—and what she must risk to do it.

Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? Stella doesn't mind it too much; she probably wouldn't have the energy for love—and all of love's nasty fallout—anyway.

But when Stella takes a spur-of-the-moment vacation to Jamaica, her world gets rocked to the core—not just by the relaxing effects of the sun and sea and an island full of attractive men, but by one man in particular. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean—and is half her age. The tropics have cast their spell and Stella soon realizes she has come to a cataclysmic juncture: not only must she confront her hopes and fears about love, she must question all of her expectations, passions, and ideas about life and the way she has lived it.

About The Author

Terry McMillan is the award-winning, critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, The Interruption of Everything, Who Asked You?, Mama, Disappearing Acts, I Almost Forgot About You, It’s Not All Downhill From Here, and the editor of Breaking Ice: An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Fiction. She lives in California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by liz on December 06, 2008

Another vacation read. And no, I didn't see the movie. My first, most pleasant surprise was that Terry McMillan actually has a "voice". Granted, it has a lot to do with run-on sentences, but I guess because the book/movie was so popular I didn't think the author would actually be able to write. But......more

Goodreads review by Lulu on May 22, 2023

I first read How Stella Got Her Groove Back back in 1999/2000 (I was basically a baby), but I loved this book, told everyone about this book…gave it 5 stars! May 2023 (40 years old), I re-read Stella and I was soooooo disappointed. The lack of punctuation, the rambling, repetitive, immature thoughts......more

Goodreads review by John on February 02, 2018

Several days ago a website shamed readers that we are only reading books by White males. That was a challenge. And it is Black History Month, so,…. Looking back on the 48 books completed last year on my Goodreads account, I found I had read 18 written by White women. Most of the rest by White men, s......more

Goodreads review by Nardsbaby on January 07, 2009

More Than A Love Story 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......more

Goodreads review by Mrs Tupac on November 09, 2014

!!!!!!!Don't pick up "Stella" expecting something serious and deep. Read it for what it is - a fun romance that's light and airy and meant to take you and your mind into a world away from today's every day grind.THIS BOOK REALLY HAD ME WIDE OPEN I LOVED THIS BOOK I HAPPENED TO WATCH THE MOVIE WHEN......more


Quotes

"The novel sparkles."
Chicago Sun-Times"A riotous, sexy book ... told in the inimitable voice of Stella, who will charm the reader from the first page. ... Fans and first-time readers will be hooked."
Richmond Times Dispatch"A confessional, sister-can-you-understand-this open diary ... I laughed out loud."
Boston Globe"Terry McMillan is the only novelist I have ever read ... who makes me glad to be a woman."
—Liesl Schillinger, Washington Post Book World"A sexy handbook of self-realization."
The New Yorker