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I read this book for a diversity conversation that never happened. But I would have never picked it up otherwise. After reading a series of non-fiction, it was great to have a break into a novel form with a style of wackiness in all its elements. It seems a story that Zadie Smith kept making it up as she continuously wrote it. I thought the end was brilliant - it was the getting there that was a bit unbearable. You do get impressed by the writing, the details and creative imagination of this aut
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