This story is set in the world of American academia and focuses on two families linked together by being both a bit Black and a bit British, and in opposition by politics. Howard Belsey (liberal nihilist) hates Monty Kipps (Neo-Con 'man of faith') despite the fact that they both study Rembrandt and screw their students.
A relationship between a son and daughter bring the families together, and the wives develop an unusual friendship in an idyllic American suburbia. Issues of race and class are pursued through the causes and friendships of the adult children.
So you’re not mixed race, in America, or academic – still we can all empathise with a teenage or mid-life crisis when it hits....
Kitty
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