‘The Fraud’ Review: How Zadie Smith Lost Her Teeth
Since her audacious debut, she has been moving toward character-driven realism. In the process, she’s become the least interesting version of herself.
The Fraud is out now from Penguin Press. Illustration: Uli Knörzer This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Zadie Smith ’s first book, White Teeth , was the English comic novel on bath salts. Published to universal acclaim in 2000, it loosely centered on the Iqbals and the Joneses, two zany families living in Willesden Green, the diverse North London neighborhood where Smith grew up. Her madcap creations lost their teeth, fucked twins, gave birth during earthquakes, predicted the end of the world; there were I
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