I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan

Agent: Molly Friedrich, Friedrich Literary Agency. Watching 50-something Georgia slowly reinvent herself and find lasting love along the way is a joy to behold. You can be a woman and be happy without a man and without love.” There’s no better guide than McMillan for this excursion through early-, middle-, and old-age crises, and no better creator of female characters who refuse to give up on dreaming, or looking back to find the way forward in their noisy, messy, joyous lives. 'In I Almost Forgot About You, McMillan gives us a story about the possibility of change at any age couched in her customary vivacious prose and lush portrayals of character and relationships.

“It can also just as soon leave you in a ditch. “Love doesn’t have an age limit, and it can find you at any time in your life,” she tells her 22-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, the real work of Georgia’s life bustles all around her: her crazy-in-love 81-year-old mother, two best and brutally honest friends, and two daughters tentatively embarking on their own complicated lives-an expertly drawn cast of characters that includes the perfect foils for the alternately quixotic and practical Georgia. Here, 54-year-old optometrist Georgia Young, bored with her work and romantically adrift after two failed marriages, sets out to reinvent herself by examining the loves she left behind-providing a nifty three-step guide for finding “the Right One,” and then moving on when it turns out wrong-taking a train trip to Vancouver and turning a knack for design into a career. McMillan ( Who Asked You?) revs up middle age in a rambunctious showcase of the bestselling author’s keen ear for language, clear eye for the give-and-take of sex, love, and commitment, and heartfelt faith in happy endings. The 1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning.

I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan