I got it on my desk but all I've read is the part that was excerpted in The New Yorker. I thought it was an interesting meditation on how class and inevitably race drifts us apart from each other's lives. I think it especially has some resonance today in light of all the social unrest that London faced last year and the ever-tightening noose of economic austerity that pushed the UK back into a recession. Some of the reviews the book has gotten have not been very good so I'm wary about diving into it. I don't think it'll live up to White Teeth, but I'm sure I'll enjoy it.

"Capitalism will never fail because socialism will always be there to bail it out." - Ralph Nader