Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
About This Novel
In 1982 in northwest London, two mixed-race little girls met in a community dance studio and quickly became friends. Both dream of becoming dancers, but only Tracy has the talent; the other has all kinds of weird ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, or what makes a person truly free. As they enter adolescence, their passionate friendship quickly cools and they take different paths. Tracy became a supporting actress in the musical, but soon ruined her life in other ways; her friend, the protagonist of the novel, left the neighborhood and accidentally became the assistant of Amy, their childhood idol, and was involuntarily dragged forward by that glorious world. When Amy decides to go to Africa to carry out her charity work, the protagonist's life changes drastically. After experiencing deception, betrayal, the death of her mother and disappointment in the entertainment industry, she eventually returned to the neighborhood of her birth and her childhood friends.
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