White Teeth

June 26, 2003 | This article appeared in the July 14, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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Norman Rush's first novel, Mating (1991), opens with a nervous
but gripping epigram: "In Africa, you want more, I think." The speaker,
an unnamed American anthropologist who doesn't want

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