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A review by zerofactorial
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
4.0
Zadie Smith, once again, delights. She has never let me down since I first read NW and knew she had mastered the novel. These characters, resolutely whole and uncompromisingly messy, will stay with me for a long time.
The things I'm most thinking about (writing this almost exactly a month after finishing it) are: -- okay I just realized the main character is unnamed now as I attempted to look it up, thinking I had forgotten it, I really did read it with due attention-- the narrator's choice which gets her fired and why she chose it and the subtle complication of that, the awe the narrator feels for Tracey as kids, the mess of the relationship with the father and the way that small things can turn beautiful things ugly so quickly.
The things I'm most thinking about (writing this almost exactly a month after finishing it) are: -- okay I just realized the main character is unnamed now as I attempted to look it up, thinking I had forgotten it, I really did read it with due attention-- the narrator's choice which gets her fired and why she chose it and the subtle complication of that, the awe the narrator feels for Tracey as kids, the mess of the relationship with the father and the way that small things can turn beautiful things ugly so quickly.