![]() ![]() ![]() And the narrator comes to feel that she has been the "sole witness" to Tracey's brilliance – expressed in movement and attention and wit and intuition and contempt for pretence. Tracey, after a few gigs as a dancer, fades back into the poverty she came from. The narrator goes to university and becomes an assistant to a pop star, living a detached life on planes and in rented townhouses. Unnamed, unsure, neither black nor white, the narrator is fittingly indistinct in this brilliant novel about the illusions of identity.Īs the two grow older, their lives diverge. The other, the narrator of Swing Time, is talented in another direction: She is an observer, a wallflower given structure by stronger, surer women around her. One, Tracey, is a natural dancer: intuitive, genius, even. In the same dance class, the same shade of nut-brown, they are "two iron filings drawn to a magnet," friends before they speak. Two brown girls from North London council estates want to be dancers. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Swing Time Author Zadie Smith ![]()
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