B.A. Parker

And I think before then, you have your Zora Neale Hurston, you had Alice Walker, you have your Toni Morrison.

That feels like it is revered in a way that I don't think Waiting to Exhale is as revered in that capacity.

And I think reading it

And I just think it's hilarious.

But it's, like, continuous crashing out.

I mean, how are you living?

I'm continuously crushing out.

That was one thing I did like, is there constantly having breakdowns?

I just think about the 90s black female author and how like our mom's bookshelves were so full, but somehow Waiting Exhale and Terry McMillan kind of bubbled up to the surface.

And the other women didn't have that same kind of shine in that moment.

So, earlier this year, my mom was like, oh, I just heard about this book, and I think you would really like it.

I thought of you.

I was like, oh, I'm honored.

I always love when, like, I heard of a book and I thought of you.

I love that.

And she said, go read it.

So, I read it, and it was called The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy.

And it's good.

And it's like, it goes through this friendship of five friends over a span of time where it's like, they're in their 20s and there's like, there's marriage, there's work, they become like grown women, but it kind of fades.

fills that hole that I was getting with Waiting to Exhale.