Permission to Enter

About this book

Permission to Enter charts the life of it's protagonist, Keisha Blake, and her best friend, Leah Hanwell, neighbors in a housing estate in North West London, from the ages of four to twenty-one. Through a series of numbered vignettes, we watch Keisha's progression through school and university as she and Leah gradually leave the estate and its expectations behind them.Zadie Smith in conversation with Cressida Leyshon on 'Permission to Enter': http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...Read the story in The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...