Swing Time

Two brown girls dream of being dancers-but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or what makes a person truly free. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her old friend leaves the neighbourhood far behind, travelling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live.

Author:Zadie Smith



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Zadie Smith