{"product_id":"how-stella-got-her-groove-back-isbn-9780451209146","title":"How Stella Got Her Groove Back","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Stella Got Her Groove Back\u003c\/i\u003e is full of Terry McMillan's signature humor, heart, and insight. More than a love story, it is ultimately a novel about how a woman saves her own life—and what she must risk to do it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eStella Payne is forty-two, divorced, a high-powered investment analyst, mother of eleven-year-old Quincy- and she does it all. In fact, if she doesn't do it, it doesn't get done, from Little League carpool duty to analyzing portfolios to folding the laundry and bringing home the bacon. She does it all well, too, if her chic house, personal trainer, BMW, and her loving son are any indication. So what if there's been no one to share her bed with lately, let alone rock her world? 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