Zadie SmithsFeel Freeis not that book.
White women who date black men.
WASPy family garden parties.
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Crazy younger brothers who play banjos.
Sexual psychopaths, hunting guns, cannibalism, mind-control, well-meaning conversations about Obama.
Well-meaning conversations about basketball.
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Spontaneous touching of ones biceps or hair.
Lifestyle cults, actual cults.
Houses with no other anywhere near them.
They cover the helplessness felt when traveling to Florence, Italy.
Here is the Duomo again…which seems to be constantly changing its location.
You cant fight fire with air.
But equally you cant fight for a freedom youve forgotten how to identify.
So its clear: You should readFeel Freeto aid in the resistance.
But what of all the other moods?
Heres a guide to using her (other) best titles.
This book is basically a love letter to the neighborhoods of youth all of the flaws included.
Four locals and their comings-and-goings in the council make up the plot ofNW.
Its one of those books thats more about what its like tobepeople than whathappensto those people.
