I Almost Forgot About You : by Terry McMillan

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…