![]() ![]() ![]() Tracey has the tap-dancing talent the narrator’s gifts are more subterranean: “elegance attracted me. ![]() The result is a novel-length current of competition, love, and loathing between them. John's Wood.” From this three-paragraph prologue, the story jumps abruptly back 24 years to 1982, when the narrator, a “horse-faced seven-year-old,” meets Tracey, another brown girl in North West London arriving for dance class. She was “put on a plane, sent back home, to England, set up with a temporary rental in St. “I’d lost my job, a certain version of my life, my privacy,” the unnamed narrator tells us. ![]() She opens with a scene of that social media–fueled nightmare: public humiliation. Smith, who wowed the world at 24 with her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), once again crafts quicksilver fiction around intense friendship, race, and class. A keen, controlled novel about dance and blackness steps onto a stage of cultural land mines. ![]()
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