A review by alh0f3
On Beauty by Zadie Smith

3.0

I didn't love this book. Smith focuses on character development rather than plot, and does so very well. For the most part, even the tangential characters were multi-dimensional. But I found her characters, almost without exception, to be deplorable people who did not seem to grow or change as the book went on. Smith uses them to comment on her underlying themes of race, class and academia, but I just never felt invested.