Talking about her two best friends, Georgia is pretty harsh. Just like us, Georgia has a type - or does she?Įverybody wants a happy ending and Georgia’s happy ever after is so ridiculously romantic that it feels churlish to criticize other aspects of this novel.īut there are things about Georgia that are downright unpleasant. Georgia’s exes and romantic possibilities go by in a blur: Handsome, fit, well-dressed men with pillowy lips and thin mustaches. Her summaries of Georgia’s marriages and major love connections - “this is what he gave me” - are powerful and poetic. McMillan is funny and frank about men, women and sex. When a new patient leads Georgia to discover that one of her past loves has died, she vows to revisit her significant exes to thank them for their time together and see what she has learned from the relationships. Georgia Young, a successful ophthalmologist living in a chic Bay Area home, is nearing 55 with no romance in her life, two ex-husbands, two grown daughters, two granddaughters and a longing for something more. Terry McMillan, best-selling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, returns to familiar lovelorn territory in her newest novel, I Almost Forgot About You (Crown, 368 pp., ** out of four stars).
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