This Week's Acquisitions
- Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (Picador, 2002). Satiric look at an imploding family.
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Vintage, 2001). Post-WWII, immigrants make their way through North London.
- Colm Toibin, The Blackwater Lightship (Scribner, 2001). Intergenerational tensions come to the fore as a young man dies of AIDS.