Cards of Identity

Joyce Carol Oates

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NW
by Zadie Smith
Penguin, 401 pp., $26.95

In its assiduously detailed evocation of the multicultural neighborhood of Willesden, in northwestern London, where in 1975 she was born and where she now lives for part of the year, Zadie Smith’s NW is a boldly Joycean appropriation, fortunately not so difficult of entry as its great model.

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