White Teeth
Based in London, providing insight into the families of second-generation immigrants, it’s a colourful book full of life and crazy description. It changes direction quite suddenly but as usual the threads all tie up in the end.
However, I enjoyed it enough to try again so in a month or so I’m going to re-read it and see if I can work out what bits I’m missing. It’s like hearing only three parts of a four-part harmony, there’s something not quite there, and in this case it’s not the author, it’s definitely me.
I do, however, really love some of the characters. All the younger generation are so intricately tied together. And Hortense, a Jamaican Jehovah’s Witness constantly convinced of a new date for the second coming, is a wonderful side step from everyone else.
