Listening to award-winning author Zadie Smith read her collection of six personal essays about life in the year 2020 is such a transcendent experience that when done, you’ll want to start again from the beginning. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss Smith’s audiobook, which she reads with a smooth, warm, London-born voice and a quick but not too fast pace. The witty, observant, thoughtful essays touch on the pandemic, womanhood, America, families, classism and racism, reading and writing, and what makes life worthwhile. Published by Penguin Random House.

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