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Another Way to Dance is a deceptively straightforward book with a lot going on underneath. Vicki is in New York for a summer ballet programme—one that could potentially give her a huge leg up (no pun intended) in the ballet world—but she's hyperaware of her environment. The city is a mishmash of cultures and skintones, but the ballet world is whitewhitewhite, and Vicki's not sure she'll ever truly be allowed to make her home there.
In a lot of ways it's a fairly standard 90s YA ballet novel, but I appreciated the layers here...Vicki's imaginary relationship with Mikhail Baryshnikov, her sometimes uncertain introduction into Michael's life (is the Mikhail/Michael naming intentional?), her complicated relationships with her family. She wants to make ballet her life, but the truth of the matter is that she has a lot more going on than exclusively ballet.
This is Southgate's first novel, and the other two that I've read ([b:Third Girl from the Left|1144538|Third Girl from the Left|Martha Southgate|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1181383926s/1144538.jpg|17374039] and [b:The Fall of Rome|375917|The Fall of Rome|Martha Southgate|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1174276195s/375917.jpg|17374046]) definitely had more sophistication, but this was still a nice quiet read with good depth.
In a lot of ways it's a fairly standard 90s YA ballet novel, but I appreciated the layers here...Vicki's imaginary relationship with Mikhail Baryshnikov, her sometimes uncertain introduction into Michael's life (is the Mikhail/Michael naming intentional?), her complicated relationships with her family. She wants to make ballet her life, but the truth of the matter is that she has a lot more going on than exclusively ballet.
This is Southgate's first novel, and the other two that I've read ([b:Third Girl from the Left|1144538|Third Girl from the Left|Martha Southgate|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1181383926s/1144538.jpg|17374039] and [b:The Fall of Rome|375917|The Fall of Rome|Martha Southgate|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1174276195s/375917.jpg|17374046]) definitely had more sophistication, but this was still a nice quiet read with good depth.
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