Nw by zadie smith book review6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Like many books I read, I started NW on the train home from work. But with the perfect set-up for a book filled with neurosis and social angst where people with issues like drug addiction and homelessness live alongside those whose biggest issue is they’re bored with their perfect life. Just as we’re hooked into ‘visitation’ (pages 1-84) it’s over and we’re off elsewhere. Leah Hanwell is interrupted by a knock at her door an interruption by a stranger where a small incident takes place, which later (once she’s reported it to friends and family) continues to build in her own consciousness to overtake everything she does – her actions, thoughts and life. We’re in the city – the kind that doesn’t so much bustle with vim and vigour but the one where there are just so many, many people living side by side, where strangers occasionally bump up against each other disturbing the trajectory. NW starts out like an Ian McEwan novel – something like Saturday. It was also the Listener Book Club book for September. ![]()
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