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For like much of Smith's work since her debut novel White Teeth, NW is complex and nuanced in its racial characterisation.
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His characterisation?
Characterisation overlaps too.
It may help characterisation.
Same goes for characterisation.
Yet that characterisation looks simplistic.
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