Smart and sassy, British West Indian writer ZADIE SMITH, hailed
by The Washington Post as "a postmodern Charles Dickens,"
rose to stardom at the age of 23 with her debut blockbuster
novel White Teeth (2000), winner of the Commonwealth
Writers Prize. Described as a "dazzling intergenerational first
novel . . . wonderfully inventive," (The Los Angeles Times),
the author comes to Houston for the first time to read from
her highly acclaimed third novel, On Beauty, which was
shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Set on both sides of the Atlantic,
On Beauty is a brilliant analysis of family life, marriage,
the intersections of the personal and political, and provides
a "panorama of the way we live now." (Janice Simpson, Time
Magazine). Booklist says that On Beauty "should firmly
establish Smith as a literary force of nature."
