Swing Time is the story of two brown teenage girls living in houses on opposite sides in the same neighborhood in London. It starts with the two of them going to attend dance classes. The girls have different personalities owing to slight differences in their cultures- and conditions. The novel progresses with one of the two brown girls being the narrator, as they grow up in a complicated world. The narrator gets a secretarial job with a pop singer and traverses across US and Europe and eventually to Africa, Senegal where the pop start wants to run a school as charity. But Zadie Smith has her unique style of coming back to her childhood memories of her friend's as well as her own though less troubled family.
The novel is slow at times but Zadie Smith has brilliantly managed to highlight some very minute and sensitive feelings of female friendship.
In a scale of 20 we give it a 17.25. It's a must read.
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