![]() They imagine their futures full of glamorous stardom, fantasies that act as a respite from their gritty neighborhood.īut only one of them has enough talent to realistically pursue dance. Both girls are of mixed race, and both dream of the stage. We quickly leap back several decades to when the narrator was a young girl, when she befriends another young girl named Tracey at a dance class in Northwest London in the early 1980s. She is contemplative and sulky, and her dire circumstances establish a suspense that builds throughout the book we want to know what happened to her. The opening pages introduce us to an unnamed narrator (who remains nameless throughout the novel), a woman who has just lost her job as well as her privacy through some kind of public humiliation. Swing Time, Smith’s latest novel, is a fresh continuation of that tradition, with rich characters, complex relationships, and beautiful truths about the passage of time. ![]() In the years since White Teeth, Smith has experimented with her voice, and each of her subsequent books has been a transformation of narrative style while she continues to explore themes of family, race, class, and friendship. Zadie Smith’s prose hummed with energy, syntactic acuity, and graceful, rhythmic precision. ![]() I remember thinking that I had never read anything quite like White Teeth. ![]()
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