Aria teaches literacy at a nonprofit agency and lives with her Spelman girlfriend, Rochelle, in the crack-riddled neighborhood of West End. The crux of the “untelling” is Aria’s fear of revealing to Dwayne, who has proposed because he thinks she’s pregnant, the devastating news she has received from her doctor: she’s undergoing premature menopause and will never be able to have children. But Jones goes on to superficially treat Aria’s disappointing love affair at age 25 with locksmith Dwayne. It opens promisingly, with narrator Ariadne’s taut recounting of the horrific car accident in 1978 that took the lives of her father and infant sister.
Thin second novel by Jones ( Leaving Atlanta, 2002), who follows the hapless love affair of a young, infertile African-American woman in Atlanta.
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