ZADIE SMITH


Many of the men Natalie Blake became involved with after Rodney Banks were as socioeconomially and culturally alien to her as Frank was, and far less attractive, but still she didn’t approach Frank, nor did he approach her, despite their keen awareness of each other. A poetic way of putting this would be to say, “There was an inevitability about the road toward each other which encouraged meandering along the way.”

-- Zadie Smith, NW