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Swing Time

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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, about 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.

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. Moving from northwest London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.

Language: English

Pages: 453

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Release: November 15, 2016

ISBN: 0241144159

ISBN 13: 9780241144152

Swing Time

3.5/5 ( ratings)

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, about 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.

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we can survive them. Moving from northwest London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time.

Language: English

Pages: 453

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton

Release: November 15, 2016

ISBN: 0241144159

ISBN 13: 9780241144152

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