![]() ![]() ![]() In Part 2, Zora wrestles with her physical appearance. Kiki sees Howard and Claire talking, and immediately realizes that Claire was the woman Howard had an affair with, only heightening her sense of betrayal. ![]() The Belseys have an anniversary party, with many people from Wellington in attendance. The Kipps family moves to Wellington, as Monty is to be a guest lecturer at the college. Levi, especially, is excited, as he dislikes living in such a heavily-white area. There, they meet a young black man from Roxbury, Carl. ![]() In an attempt to act as a family, the Belseys go see a performance of Mozart’s Requiem in Boston. She and Jerome run into Claire and Warren, old family friends who have just now gotten married. She takes a sulky Jerome to the Wellington town fair, where Kiki tries to flirt with a Haitian jewelry seller. Nine months later, it is summertime and Kiki is dealing with the aftermath of finding out Howard has had an affair. Howard flies to London to put an end to the engagement. Howard is the most enraged, as he is an academic rival to the patriarch of the Kipps family, Monty. He briefly becomes engaged to Victoria Kipps, and the rest of the Belsey family, who lives in Wellington react differently. Jerome is staying with the Kipps family in London during a semester abroad. The novel, told from the third-person omniscient point of view, opens with an e-mail exchange between Jerome Belsey and Howard Belsey. The following version of this book was used to create this guide: Smith, Zadie. ![]()
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