This is a family saga with attitude. A sort of latter day Dickens novel with plenty of larger-than-life characters.Sometimes it annoyed me, with an implausible twist of the plot or in a character, but then it would grip me again. It's definitely worth reading though.
It's about the Belsey family - Howard, an irascible white Englishman who lectures in the States, his black wife and their mixed-race kids. One of the major plot-lines is Howard's feud with the right-wing, Christian black family - the Kippses.
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