One character in this novel flips a coin directly into the slot of a pinball machine.
One character in this novel flips a coin directly into the slot of a pinball machine. Another character in this work repeats the phrase "Can't say fairer than that" while having an affair with the music teacher Poppy Burt-Jones. That character convinces the owner of O'Connell's pub to hang up a portrait of his great-grandfather Mangal Pandey, the instigator of the Sepoy Mutiny. This novel features an (*) Islamic fundamentalist organization with the acronym KEVIN and ends with the escape of the biologist Marcus Chalfen's genetically-modified FutureMouse. This work prompted an essay about the genre of "hysterical realism" by James Wood, and opens with the attempted suicide of Archibald Jones, who later marries the former Jehovah's Witness Clara Bowden. For 10 points, name this debut novel by Zadie Smith.
One character in this novel flips a coin directly into the slot of a pinball machine.
White Teeth