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November 2016Swing Time
Literary fiction

Swing Time

by Zadie Smith

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The book feels like the culmination of all her talents: a gift for character and dialogue, a story rooted in a deep cultural and racial awareness

Why I love it

Kevin Nguyen
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Zadie Smith means different things to different people. Some arrive at her novels first, like the ambitious family saga _White Teeth_, finding a self-assured voice that marked her as an immediate fiction talent. Others discovered Zadie Smith the versatile cultural critic who could write a loving review for the 50 Cent movie _Get Rich or Die Tryin’_. Smith is an ambidextrous writer'”perhaps just a ...

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    November 2016