Rumour has it that Hamish Hamilton
accepted the manuscript for publication and paid its advance of £250,000 on the strength of eighty pages which ZS
submitted to them in the year of her graduation from...
Dedications
Zadie Smith
She dedicated it to her mother, Yvonne
, and thanked Dr Marloes Janson
for an anthropological study from which she says she learned a lot: Islam, Youth, and Modernity in the Gambia: The Tablighi Jama'at.
Family and Intimate relationships
Zadie Smith
ZS
's mother was born in Jamaica (as Yvonne Maclean
) and migrated to England at the age of fifteen. She worked as a model in the fashion industry, then as a secretary. After taking...
