![]() ![]() Jones surrounds these unhappy women with other well-drawn characters. Also, like her mother (who was holding baby Genevieve on her lap during the car accident), Ariadne carries an unwarranted but overpowering burden of guilt: she blames herself for refusing to comfort her father during his last moments of life. ![]() This problem has especially sad consequences for her relationship with her boyfriend Dwayne. ![]() Ariadne's father died when she was on the brink of puberty, and it seems that her very womanhood has been compromised. Hermione has married her father's best friend and her relations with her stepdaughter, a woman who's older than she is, are icy. Eloise's quirkiness she chose her daughters' names can turn mean she can bake BB's into cornbread, or capriciously lock her daughters out of the house. The damage sometimes manifests in roundabout ways. Ariadne, her mother Eloise and older sister Hermione survived, physically unscarred, but psychologically mangled. When Ariadne Jackson was around 10 years old, her father and younger sister Genevieve were killed in a car crash that Jones describes with quiet, matter-of-fact horror. Her new novel, The Untelling, though focused on one family, tells a story no less wrung with grief. ![]() Tayari Jones' first novel, Leaving Atlanta, dealt with the sorrow and horror of the Atlanta Child Murders of the early 1980s. ![]()
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