Zadie has a half-sister, a half-brother, and two younger brothers, one of whom is the rapper and stand-up comedian Doc Brown and the other is rapper Luc Skyz. Her mother had grown up in Jamaica and emigrated to Britain in 1969. Zadie Smith was born as Sadie Smith in the northwest London borough of Brent-a largely working-class area-to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and a British father, Harvey Smith. Currently-lives in New York City, New York, and London, England.Moving from northwest London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.Äazzlingly 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. 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. Two brown girls dream of being dancers-but only one, Tracey, has talent. An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from northwest London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty.
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