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The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

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Zadie Smith
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: October 27
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
London
England
Zadie Adeline Smith
Leads
Otherwise
Places
Novel
Never
Gotten

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