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In 1995, Oprah interviewed the cast of Waiting to Exhale, the movie adaptation of Terry McMillan's book by the same name. After talking about some of the relationship issues the characters faced, she asked the actresses: “It isn’t that bad in the world, do you think? We have a lot of women in the audience.  Read more >

A bedroom crawling with cockroaches and rats, New York winters without heat, the early death of her father, the struggle to keep up in school in her second language, and nights spent bagging dresses in a sweatshop. The challenges facing Girl in Translation's Kimberly (“Ah-Kim”) Chang are overwhelmingly difficult and had me sneaking in a few minutes of reading whenever I could to see how she and her mother were holding up.  Read more >