num_pages: 453
description: Two brown girls dream of being dancersbut 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
title: Swing Time
publisher: Hamish Hamilton