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008			170228s20162016nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781594203985
050	0	0	_aPR6069.M59 _bS95 2016
082	1		_aFIC SMI _2
100	1		_aSmith, Zadie
245	1	0	_aSwing time _c/ Zadie Smith.
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Presss _c, 2016
300			_a453 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aA new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the author of White Teeth and On Beauty 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.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aFemale friendship _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen, Black _v--Fiction
650		4	_aDancers _v--Fiction
651		4	_aLondon (England) _v--Fiction
651		4	_aAfrica, West _v--Fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c259548 _d259548