Pacific Library's "New Adult" Book Club: White Teeth by Zadie Smith

This month's read is White Teeth by Zadie Smith. 

About the Book: "Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith's voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own. At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England's irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn't quite match her name (Jamaican for "no problem"). Samad's late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal's every effort to direct them, and a renewed, if selective, submission to his Islamic faith. Set against London' s racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life, flirting with disaster, confounding expectations, and embracing the comedy of daily existence."

The "New Adult" Book Club at the Pacific Library is a monthly book club for “New Adults,” individuals aged 17-27 years old. We read a variety of contemporary fiction as well the occasional nonfiction. The hope is this book discussion will bring together young and new adults in the area to foster community, relationships, and a love for reading.

Copies of the novel are available to put on hold here or a limited few are available to pick up at Pacific Library's front desk beginning May 1st. Please register if you can, but all are welcome!