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Victor and Kelly meet in a bar at the frazzled back end of the Millennium celebrations and end up going home together. It is the best sex that either has ever had, and what follows is the story of an increasingly dangerous sexual obsession. The book is divided into two sections with voices given to Victor and then Kelly. Griffith's prose is restrained and subtle, with none of the almost southern gothic language of Sheepshagger and Grits. It is thrilling rather than tedious to read two accounts of the same events. In the story, Victor becomes a helpless and willing victim, with Kelly seeming equally helpless in her actions. Both appear to be captivated by the light and passion of the relationship, set against the depressing reality of their everyday lives. Indeed, the idea that the wasted and fiery nights out have to give way to the grey and hopeless realities of modern life is one of the books most eloquent arguments. Kelly + Victor is not an easy book to stomach but it remains an essential one. Griffiths here expanded his scope and reach further than most casual observers of Grits would have though possible. In doing so he made his own, an often dark and hazy world, offset with only the faintest glimmers of hope. Kelly + Victor is both a scathing attack on the violence, pornography and prevailing values in modern society, and a celebration of love, no matter how uncomfortable and battered it might be.
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