During a school council meeting, a parent in this novel questions the purpose of the Harvest Festival (10[1])since there (10[1])aren’t any (10[1])pagan students. After a man in this novel ties for thirteenth as a cyclist (10[1])in the Olympics, he becomes pen pals (10[1])with his Swedish opponent Horst Ibelgaufts. (10[1]-5[1])A soldier in this novel (10[1])gets shot in the (-5[1])leg (10[1])after flipping a coin to decide if he should kill (10[1])a Nazi scientist (-5[1])found in a small Bulgarian village. This novel ends at a conference during which groups like the Jehovah’s (10[1])Witnesses (10[1])and FATE protest the work (10[1])of Marcus Chalfen, (10[3])who has genetically (10[2])engineered a (10[1])mouse. The two main families (10[2])in this novel are that of Archie Jones, who marries (10[2])the Jamaican (10[2])Clara (10[1])Bowden, (10[2])and Samad Iqbal, (10[1])a Bangladeshi (10[1])immigrant (10[1])to London. For 10 points, (10[2])name this debut novel of Zadie (10[1])Smith. ■END■ (10[6]0[4])