"Smith's thrilling cultural insights never overshadow the wholeness
of her characters, who are so keenly observed that one feels
witness to their lives." -O, The Oprah Magazine "A sweeping
meditation on art, race, and identity that may be [Smith's] most
ambitious work yet." -Esquire A New York Times bestseller *
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction *
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 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. Zadie Smith's newest book,
Grand Union, published in 2019.
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