Immigration policy marks the fence with “GO HOME” and “WE ARE ALREADY HOME THANK YOU” spray-painted alongside each other.ĭespite the obvious intrigue of the book, Ali Smith uses the political context to explore the power of a bond that transcends the issues of a specific age.
A fence has even been erected to further accentuate the divisiveness. Brexit has divided their small town outside of London into factions. In “Autumn,” Daniel Gluck is 101 and Elisabeth Demand is 32, yet a gap of nearly 70 years does not hinder their tender friendship.īut around them, the world is spinning itself apart. The next installation, “Winter,” releases today in the UK, right as the first frost kills off all of autumn’s late-season flowers. That is how Ali Smith constructs her novel “Autumn,” which came out a year ago. Take two people born at opposite ends of the same century, build a bond between them, and let the world rotate and rot around them. Ali Smith’s “great Brexit” novel is about more than politics.
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