{"id":4169,"date":"2016-08-17T17:41:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2016-08-17T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T17:41:46","slug":"white-teeth-by-zadie-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"White Teeth by Zadie Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4202\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1258177\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4202\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/White-Teeth-1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"White Teeth\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/White-Teeth-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/White-Teeth-1.jpg 388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 100vw, 129px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Zadie Smith is recognized as one of England&#8217;s premiere fiction writers.\u00a0 Her first book, published in 2000, made an enormous splash and vaulted her to instant prominence.<\/p>\n<p><em>White Teeth <\/em>features a complex weave of fascinating characters, from multiple ethnic and racial backgrounds,\u00a0reflecting modern-day England.\u00a0 The story centers on two friends &#8212;\u00a0Archie, a redheaded English person married to an Afro-Caribbean woman, and Samad, a Muslim immigrant from Bangladesh. \u00a0Their adventures are simultaneously funny and moving.\u00a0 The storyline is entertaining, but the novel&#8217;s spice comes from the mosaic of peoples, cultures, and customs living in the same neighborhood, and the tensions and relationships that ensue.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely laugh out-loud at a book, but I did with this one.\u00a0 Give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zadie Smith is recognized as one of England&#8217;s premiere fiction writers.\u00a0 Her first book, published in 2000, made an enormous splash and vaulted her to instant prominence. White Teeth features a complex weave of fascinating characters, from multiple ethnic and racial backgrounds,\u00a0reflecting modern-day England.\u00a0 The story centers on two friends &#8212;\u00a0Archie, a redheaded English person &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White Teeth by Zadie Smith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}