# Swing Time

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- Book: [Swing Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/swing-time) ([Swing Time.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith/swing-time.md))
- Authors: [Zadie Smith](https://www.bookquiver.com/zadie-smith)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4196-530-6
- Published: 2016-11-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Dazzlingly energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them. Moving from north-west London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time. 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...