Fucking Perfect Personified have not caught on yet that our perfection is merely a figment of our very own distorted imagination and I should know because I'm in that forty-and-over club for Emotional Subversives in Denial About Everything. Also, Rick's Café is a real place that actually exists. And one funny thing about being a former travel agent and having been to Negril is that I was able to identify the resort Stella's staying at when she first meets Winston, the resort she takes the kids to when they go back to visit, and the resort where Winston gets his new job. So Stella's journey (literal and metaphorical) is an engrossing one, and one that I enjoyed tagging along on, even if she does turn into a mooney-eyed teenager at the end. Although, she is very hung up on her body's smells and douches/sprays her lady parts pretty frequently, even though she "knows" it's nothing but bad news. She's a sympathetic character, she knows herself, she's an individual, and she's built herself a great life. 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. My first, most pleasant surprise was that Terry McMillan actually has a "voice". 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.moreĪnother vacation read. He's tall, lean, soft-spoken, Jamaican, smells of citrus and the ocean-and is half her age. 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.īut 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. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any indication. 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. Stella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. 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. In fact, if she doesn't do it, i How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. How Stella Got Her Groove Back is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight.
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