B.A. Parker

The book show where we reread old favorites and tell you why they still matter today.

In my house, it's iconic.

Yes.

It was the cover that you have, the old school paperback with the highlighter business suits with the fancy hats.

I saw it every day of my childhood on my mom's bookshelf.

I mean, from that to the movie to the soundtrack, like my entire childhood.

Mm-hmm.

It's like wrapped up in Waiting to Exhale, even though I've never read the book until today for the show.

I'm sorry.

I mean, I read this book when I was like 12.

I had to sneak and read things and it was too hard.

I did sneak and read How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

Yeah.

The 90s really was like...

Oh my goodness, Terry on Terry crime.

It's a real, like, intracultural conversations that are being had that happen to be mass marketed and, like, have this huge publishing deal.

That's kind of like, you'll have something like Joy Luck Club, where it's like...

Amy Tan's trying to exercise these feelings she has about her family and her mother's past and all these things through all these separate women, or whether it's their eyes are watching God, where she's also having...

an intercultural conversation.

Critics may not have felt that way at the time.