Jerome seems to be emphasizing the positive aspects of the Kippses, and the negative aspects of the Belseys, such as a perceived lack of “logic” in the Belsey family. The next email details more of Jerome’s adventures and good times with the Kippses. The end of this email also reveals that Monty Kipps and Howard Belsey have some kind of feud over public debates and writings, and Jerome urges his father to forget this feud, which is just a waste of energy. Carlene has been helping Jerome pray, apparently something that is frowned upon in the Belsey household. Jerome has not only been working for Monty, but living with the Kippses as well, and has taken a strong liking to the wife, Carlene. Jerome’s first email details his office internship work, and this email also establishes that he and his father have some sort of problematic relationship. Jerome is interning abroad in England, in the office of a man named Monty Kipps. As Kiki develops a friendship with Mrs.The story opens directly on a series of emails exchanged between a boy named Jerome Belsey, and his father Howard Belsey, who is evidently a professor at a university called Wellington. Taken in by the Kipps family for the summer, Jerome falls for Monty's beautiful, capricious daughter, Victoria." "But this short-lived romance has long-lasting consequences, drawing these very different families into each other's lives. In London he defies everything the Belseys represent when he goes to work for Trinidadian right-wing academic and pundit, Monty Kipps.
Meanwhile, his three teenage children - Jerome, Zora and Levi - are each seeking the passions, ideals and commitments that will guide them through their own lives." "After Howard has a disastrous affair with a colleague, his sensitive older son, Jerome, escapes to England for the holidays. Married young, thirty years later he is struggling to revive his love for his African American wife Kiki. "Howard Belsey is an Englishman abroad, an academic teaching in Wellington, a college town in New England.
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