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Since Terry McMillan's breakout novel Waiting To Exhale1 surged onto the bestseller lists, critics and readers alike have been captivated by her irreverent, often-hilarious take on the issues faced by contemporary women. With The Interruption of Everything she picks up, pitch-perfect, the dilemmas2 of midlife: an empty nest. Hormones3 gone wild. Too many irrelevant4 demands and too little room to breathe.
Marilyn Grimes is about ready to jump out of her skin. She's the consummate5 wife and mother of three grown kids. She's got a no-great-shakes-but-a-good-provider of a husband, Leon; and a live-in mother-in-law, Arthurine, who comes with a bingo-playing beau, Prezell, and an elderly pooch, Snuffy. Marilyn's two best friends, Paulette and Bunny, are the quintessential take-no-prisoners, vintage McMillan girlfriends who will be there when Marilyn jumps, but... she's just not sure exactly where that will be... or when. First, she needs to remember what she used to love and call back some of her own postponed6 dreams. But just as Marilyn's plans for making changes are taking shape, life comes up with a few twists of its own. Suddenly Marilyn must reinvent just about everything: marriage, friendship, family-and not least of all, herself.
The Interruption of Everything is a triumphant7 testament8 to the fact that the detour9 is the path, and living life "by the numbers" never quite adds up.
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