Joi’s Reviews > With Love from Harlem: A Novel of Hazel Scott > Status Update

Hazel is very unlucky in love. I’m shocked she gave Adam another chance, but it was obviously for her son’s sake.

Adam cheating on Hazel with a white woman while he preaches out Black Liberation is crazy! Instead of them dealing with their marital problems they both travel to opposite sides of the world and act as if the other doesn’t exist while remaining married. They both needed partners who were okay with being a support and letting their significant other shine.

This book may be better as a movie, but as a book it is not giving.

Adam gets worse every page! Hazel has the world’s least supportive husband, he thinks so little of her but so much of himself. It’s like he married Hazel because he saw her as a trophy, and once he had her he couldn’t care less about her. And that because so evident when she was accused of being a communist. All he could see was how it affected him and his career goals.

Okay, now that Hazel is in Trinidad visiting her maternal family, maybe that will give her the reality slap she needs about Adam’s raggedy self! Her relatives in Trinidad are some straight shooters. This so far as been the most interesting part of the book.

Not Hazel ruining her whole career for this no good man.

Hazel’s downfall was Adam.

History note: pregnancy test with urine and a frog.

Wow! Adam continues to get worse. He’s so controlling!

Hazel and Adam and exasperating