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