Tracing the lives of Caribbean and South Asian immigrants, Muslims and Jews, fancy Cambridge graduates and fundamentalists with a taste for marijuana, Smith’s fiction is a comic portrait of a city at the turn of the millennium, and yet it’s also a classic London story of adventures high, low, rich, and poor. Descended from Dickens, White Teeth is alive with the same strains of energy, humor, and generosity that characterized the work of that distant literary forebear.
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