This book is all about the search for identity—not just as kids, but in life. It shows what happens when you don’t really have a firm sense of who you are.
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Two 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 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. A story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them
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- Title
- Swing time
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Zadie Smith
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0141036605
- ISBN13
- 9780141036601
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Music Theme, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Literary Fiction, England, Great Britain, Africa, Parenthood, English Literature, London, Race, Racism, Childhood, Dreams, Identity, Poverty, Dance, Emancipation, Development Aid
- First published
- 2016
- Original title
- Swing Time
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- Two 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 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. A story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them