![]() ![]() Right from abandoning her ambitious mother and genial father and gravitating towards Tracey in her teens, to landing a job at a music channel by severing ties with the very same girl. This unequal ledge of talent sets precedent to the rest of the story and throughout her life, our narrator registers experiences, always a tad less vibrant than she had hoped she would come by. ![]() Narrated in first person, she opens her rendezvous with Tracey at the tender age of seven, when all that mattered to the duo was dance, at which, Tracey was much better. This is a story primarily about a brown girl in London whose life arcs diverse places, people and emotions somehow keeping another brown girl named Tracey at its epicenter. Zadie Smith’s narrator in ‘Swing Time’ attempts to hold this fleeting, substantial thing in her hand and poke it for its secrets over a good 35-40 years. There is something about every life: ripe with memories, rife with punctures, crowded yet distinct, deceptively omniscient but a puzzle to its only custodian. ![]()
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