01853cam a2200301 4500 607510976 TxAuBib 20170817120000.0 161031s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2016040560 9781594203985 $27.00 1594203989 $27.00 (OCoLC)961476900 FO7 FO7 OCLCO KNJ TxAuBib Smith, Zadie, author. Swing time / Zadie Smith. New York : Penguin Press, 2016. 453 pages ; 25 cm. Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly 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. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time. 20170817. bt/aw. Women, Black Fiction. Female friendship Fiction. Dancers Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Africa, West Fiction. TXMIT