Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 2000

Love Smith but she got much better after White Teeth, On Beauty will be a serious contender for me depending on what it's up against

thankfully the other Beauty novel is from the previous year

i like white teeth a lot, probably would have voted for it if it came out in a different year than last samurai

i haven’t read anything else of hers but i once read an interview where she says that she was embarrassed by white teeth and how young and naive and reckless she was when she wrote it and how brazenly she assumes the voices of all these different perspectives and my rxn like nooo that’s what was so good about it