NW by Zadie SmithRead about another book on the list.
Smith grew up on a Willesden council estate, and NW depicts the lives of four others, now in their thirties, shaped – in very different ways – by their formative years on the fictional Caldwell estate: “five blocks connected by walkways and bridges and staircases, and lifts that were to be avoided almost as soon as they were built”. With its broad range of characters and forms, NW captures something important and authentic about the divergent realities of working-class life in London. It’s the only work of fiction I feel able to recommend here.
NW is among Lisa Halliday's top ten novels that track unconnected but related stories and Jessica Winter's six favorite books on girl power.
--Marshal Zeringue
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