[ book tip by Laurie Viera Rigler ] How do I love this book? So much that I read it twice within a six-month period and dreamt about one of its protagonists. It is one of the best novels I've ever read. Zadie Smith skewers academic ambition and ego, explores marriage and infidelity, hypocrisy on both sides of the American political/cultural divide, and more. Smith has an astonishingly keen ear for dialogue. As a bonus, this book is also a literary homage to E.M. Forster's Howard's End.

[ book info ] Smith, Zadie: On Beauty.