Swing Time
by Zadie Smith · 2016
Literary Fiction · ranked #79 in category
Two mixed-race girls grow up in north-west London dreaming of dance — one talented, one not. Their friendship is the heart of the novel, which follows them into adulthood, across countries and into very different lives. Smith's fifth novel is her most ambitious structurally, moving through time and place to examine art, ambition, friendship and the ways race and class shape what's available to us.
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