Two brown girls dream of being dancers
- but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm & time, black bodies & 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 & movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith`s most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music & identity, race & class, those who follow the dance & those who lead it...