She also learns vague lessons about life, romance and the legacy of colonialism while on these trips. The narrator's job is to go to the school and coordinate stuff there it's not very clear.
The narrator goes on to work as a personal assistant for a Madonna-Angelina Jolie amalgam pop star who starts a school in an unnamed West African nation. Tracey has actual talent, and goes on to have a limited career in musical theater before single motherhood and madness destroy it. The narrator has a friend named Tracey, and they are both interested in dance. The woman is the daughter of an ambitious Jamaican immigrant mother, who is always studying and eventually becomes a member of Parliament, and a white postal-worker father, who has no ambition and dies somewhere mid-book. It's narrated by a woman (I didn't catch her name) who opens the book hiding out to avoid the press amid a scandal that I had to wait more than 400 pages to learn more about.
There are important themes about race, immigration, privilege and cultural appropriation, but the characters are hard to care about, the plot is confusing, and the story is overall uninteresting. I loved her previous book 'White Teeth,' and I was so sure I would love 'Swing Time,' too, that I downloaded loving GIFs in advance, like this one:īut I could not connect to this book, and I struggle to even tell you what it was about. I was surprised at how much of a slog this was to read. And not to waste your time this week, I’m going to come right out and say it: I did not like 'Swing Time.' I had to force myself through every page while my inner voice cried: It took me forever to get through this book. This Sunday's book is 'Swing Time' by Zadie Smith. Welcome to the latest edition of Books on GIF, the fun and smart alternative to boring book reviews.
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