Summary of I Almost Forgot About You: by Terry McMillan | Includes Analysis

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Summary of I Almost Forgot About You: by Terry McMillan | Includes Analysis

 

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I Almost Forgot About You, a novel by Terry McMillan, follows protagonist Georgia Young as she reevaluates her life between the ages of 53 and 55. An African American optometrist in the San

• Language: English
• Publisher: Instaread, Inc
• Release date: Feb 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781683788102

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I Almost Forgot About You, a novel by Terry McMillan, follows protagonist Georgia Young as she reevaluates her life between the ages of 53 and 55. An African American optometrist in the San Francisco Bay area, Georgia is a single woman who is in a dating rut. Bored with her work and tired of rattling around her big empty house, she is inspired by the news of a former paramour’s death to make some changes in her unhappy life. Along the way, she comes to terms with her past by systematically catching up with the men she used to love.

While chatting with a new patient, Georgia learns that her first love, Ray Strawberry, has passed away. She hasn’t thought about him much since college, but she remembers him fondly. Ray has been dead for five years. Still, the news is sad and unsettling. In a fit of melancholy, Georgia makes a resolution: She will contact all the men she has ever loved to let them know what they meant to her. There are more or less seven people on her list including a handful of true loves, a few men she feels ambivalent about, and two ex-husbands.

In addition to reflecting on past loves, Georgia finds herself taking a hard look at her present-day life. Dissatisfied, she feels an urgent need to regroup and strategize. She tells her best friend, Wanda, that she’s thinking of putting her house on the market and perhaps changing professions. Wanda is supportive because she has long