LikedI actually really like Swing Time. I don't think it's one of the better liked ones by Zadie Smith. But that one's like, about a friendship that breaks, and you kind of learn why, and there's a love of dance involved.
Swing Time (2016)
Creators: Liked "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning 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"--
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Lovedthis is zadie Smith's swing time loved it thought it was real good
Dislikedi actually started this i gave it a try and i wasn't immediately hooked by the story so it's one that i'm okay letting go of
Likedswing time I enjoyed but it wasn't like an all-time favorite I listen to that as an audiobook and I do find that Sadie's writing is like quite dense
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For the past two years women and girls in a Mennonite colony has been repeatedly violated in the night by "demons" coming to punish them for their sins. Now the women have learned they were in fact drugged and attacked by a group of men from their own community. Determined to protect themselves and their daughters from future harm, the women meet while the men of the colony are off in the city, attempting to raise enough money to bail out the rapists and bring them home. These women--- all illiterate, unable even to speak the language of the country they live in-- must choose: Stay in the only world they've ever known, or dare to escape? -- adapted from publisher info
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