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On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington, Massachusetts, whose misadventures in the culture wars on both sides of the Atlantic skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the collision between the personal and the political. Loosely inspired by E. M. Forster's Howards End, Zadie Smith's novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Orange Prize for Fiction.