Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Swing Time by Zadie SmithTwo brown girls dream of being dancers but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be 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. Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a

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At a moment in history when the need for cross-cultural understanding and collaboration have never been more important