Fiction from Somalia and Zadie Smith - #GreatReads: August 7, 2013

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"Likable does not equal good; unlikable does not equal bad." - author Kelly Braffet says we should quit talking about likeable characters in books
A review of Guban by Somali writer Abdi Latif Ega
An excerpt from the novel
New short fiction in the New Yorker by Zadie Smith
War and Peace, short stories by Chekhov and other essential reading for F Scott Fitzgerald

What #GreatReads have you discovered today? Let us know in the comments or by tweeting @ZODML! 
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