Sunday, July 26, 2009

White Teeth

White Teeth White Teeth by Zadie Smith


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Zadie Smith (amazingly 24 years old when she wrote this in 2000) took a subject that has been written about so frequently in recent years -- ethnic identity and confusion/colonialism (in this case British) and the long term personal outcomes/first generation versus second generation/ethic and religious stereotypes, et. al -- and makes it original. Think 'Crash' meets 'Babel' meets 'Towelhead'. But even that does not do the book justice. Smith uses humor and satire, stereotypes mixed with such dead on linguistical prose (her 'slang' is absolutely dead on accurate), characters who just barely cross the line between being believably realistic and representations of racial biases. I was completely smitten by Smith's style, humor and originality.

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