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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Fantasy
Tangled
Lies
Myths
Fiction
Homeland
Lying
Magical
Words
Infinity
Language
Imagined
Soul
Passed
Webs
Like
Myth
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