![]() ![]() Although most of his misbehavior is described in chapter one and grows more flagrant as the book progresses, Tanya dithers through the entire novel deliberating whether she should file for divorce. He's having an affair with the deacon's wife, lies outrageously, neglects his daughter and eventually grows physically abusive. ![]() ![]() When she married him eight years ago, Tanya Black thought that Curtis would be a dedicated evangelist preacher, but the power of his current position as pastor of a prominent African-American Baptist church in Chicago has turned his head, and their ""model marriage had long since turned into something very ugly and dreadfully different."" Curtis flaunts his expensive wardrobe and lifestyle, and he continually begs his congregation for more money. There are few surprises in the insubstantial plot of Roby's third novel (after Here and Now), a story of a marriage that, obviously doomed from the book's opening pages, drags on through repetitive and melodramatic scenes. ![]()
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