Vanyo666’s Reviews > Three Lives > Status Update

I am so tired of Melanctha and Jeff, of Jeff and Melanctha and their endlessly repeated conversations about their relationship. I wish this would end soon or I will have to throw this book against the wall.

It started as an interesting look at the life of a poor but educated black girl. Then her doctor boyfriend gets to learn she had been "bad" in the past and he can't handle it.

The style and language of this book is kept deliberatly simple to a fault. Mostly short, periodic sentences with simple vocabulary. The characters are repeatedly described exactly the same way and their speech is reported or quoted directly as also very simple and idiosyncratic. The effect is that of a nursery tale for adults where much is implied but little is said outright.