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woman half his age, and the couple have a daughter named Irie (the Jamaican word for "no
problem"). Samad --devoutly Muslim, hopelessly "foreign"-- weds the feisty and always suspicious
Alsana in a prearranged union. They have twin sons named Millat and Magid, one a pot-smoking
punk-cum-militant Muslim and the other an insufferable science nerd. The riotous and tortured
histories of the Joneses and the Iqbals are fundamentally intertwined, capturing an empire's worth
of cultural identity, history, and hope.
Zadie Smith's dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in
North London, an Indian restaurant in Leicester Square, an Irish poolroom turned immigrant café, a
liberal public school, a sleek science institute. A winning debut in every respect, White Teeth
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