Word: suwelo
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When Carlotta reappears at the end in a hot tub, telling Suwelo how she became a new-age musician, it is hard to believe she can have any important role to play. Yet Walker says the four "all vaguely realize they have a purpose in each other's lives. They are a collective means by which each of them will grow...
...same time, Suwelo's wife, Fanny Nzingha, daughter of Olivia from The Color Purple, goes to Africa to learn about her own roots. She finds her father, a dissident playwright who somehow manages to keep his job as Minister of Culture of a fictional African republic while he is regularly thrown into jail for writing scathing plays...
...other couple, the musician Arveyda and his Latin American wife Carlotta, split up when Arveyda has an affair with Carlotta's mother, Zede, and runs away to South America with her. He comes back, but in the meantime, Carlotta is able to have an affair with Suwelo...
...thus given many perspectives on the characters, as they talk about themselves and are talked about by several different people. But one of the primary difficulties with the novel is that the accounts don't match. When Fanny talks, she does not seem like the same Fanny about which Suwelo talks. Not even like a Fanny whom Suwelo misunderstands...
Another large problem with character is that Carlotta receives almost no attention. Her story opens up the book and she plays an important role at the end, but in between there is almost no notice of her, except to show her as Suwelo's lover. She gets less of a chance to reveal her character to the reader than the other three protagonists and they do not get much...