SOLD OUT: Zadie Smith - "Swing Time" - Vu Tran
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- The author will sign and personalize up to 3 books per person. This can consist in any combination of title.
- Please do not bring non-book items to be signed.
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Zadie Smith presents her "ambitious, exuberant new novel" Swing Time. She will be joined in conversation by Vu Tran.
Presented in partnership with the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, the University of Chicago Committee on Creative Writing, and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
At The DuSable Museum of African American History
About the book: Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either...
Dazzlingly 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.
About the author: Zadie Smith was born in Northwest London in 1975. She is the author of White Teeth, The Autograph Man, On Beauty, Changing My Mind, and NW.
About the interlocutor: Vu Tran, winner of a Whiting Award recognizing “exceptional talent and promise,” teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Dragonfish now out in paperback.
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2016 Staff Favorite
Drawing short lines across the streets of a London housing estate, between the lives of two biracial families and the very different daughters they produce, and much longer ones from Africa to England, slavery to celebrity culture, imperialism to humanitarianism, tribal dances to movie musicals, Zadie Smith manages to meditate on practically every contemporary preoccupation without ever veering into banal commentary, treacly moralizing, or gimmicky postmodernism.
-Alex