![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The emails that begin the narrative tell of Jerome's short-lived love affair with the Kipps family, with whom he stays while on an internship in London. There are three Belsey children: Zora, an intellectually precocious Wellington student Jerome, who has taken to wearing a cross around his neck and Levi, who walks with a "funky limp", likes hip-hop and only reads three books a year. ![]() Howard's post-structuralism allows him to hate almost everything, especially Monty Kipps Kiki seems determined to befriend his wife, Carlene Kipps, the "ideal 'stay-at-home' Christian Mom". Kiki, the mother, is a 250lb black woman with a "big lovely laugh" who was conventionally beautiful once and wanted to be Malcolm X's assistant, but settled for a respectable job in hospital administration. Howard, the father, is a white Englishman who manages to be a Rembrandt scholar without liking Rembrandt, and who has recently had an affair. The Belseys live in the university town of Wellington, just outside Boston. ![]()
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