Andrew Limbong

Each of them have their ups and downs with men, which for listeners out there, just a heads up, we will be talking about sex in this conversation.

But at the end of the day, I don't think it's a spoiler to say that what's at the core of this book is the friendship between the four of them.

I think that's a fair enough to start.

That's a fair enough place to start.

Yeah.

Parker, you said you grew up with this book?

But Waiting to Exhale, I couldn't.

It was like too high on the shelf.

A little bit.

Yeah, you read it at 12?

12 is crazy.

Just for reference, it was in the background of my life.

It was like, yeah, it was like, I also assumed it was grown folks business.

And that was like, I never bothered to read it until now.

Because when I was a kid, I was like, oh, yeah, that's not for me.

That's like something beyond.

Well, I was like, okay, I'll get there when I get there.

That's fair.

Yeah, but it's hard to disentangle this book from the movie, right?

I think about, kind of similar to Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club, I do feel like I read this book through osmosis of seeing the trailer for the movie somehow.