His death is like the soft down on the back of your hand, p… - Zadie Smith

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His death is like the soft down on the back of your hand, passing unnoticed in the firmest of handshakes, though the slightest breeze makes every damn one of the tiny hairs stand on end.

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Zadie Smith (born October 27, 1975) is a British novelist. Her fiction is mainly set in London.

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Alternative Names: Zadie Adeline Smith

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F. Scott Fitzgerald E. M. Forster John Updike Edmund White John Irving

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