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White Teeth

Zadie Smith

Start date: April 1, 2019

Finish date: April 29, 2019

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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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Feb 26, 2021 Cheryl rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2021-reads, fiction

A past tense, future perfect kind of night.

The first half of this novel was everything I wanted in a book this month. These compelling love stories of couples from different racial and socio-economic backgrounds was beguiling. Plus, the age factor. What reader wouldn't take the chance to peek into the soul of a couple with many years between them, right?

Clara, her energy and humor laced with patois, lured me. And Archie, what is it about the man that makes a reader so curious? I was willing ...more

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May 26, 2015 Martha rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bipoc-authors-black, read-2016, fiction, 2016-yorwoc

A clever and funny debut from the now-well-established author Zadie Smith, White Teeth tells a complex tale of clashing families, cultures and religions, set in North London.

This is a bit of a beast at 542 pages but it is worth it - quirky, witty and at times laugh-out-loud. Questions of identity and race are placed at the heart of the story without being obnoxious or worthy, and I was fascinated by the sheer humanity of these characters - many of them (if not all!) were awful to each other, bu ...more

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