{"product_id":"swing-time-zadie-smith-bk-club","title":"Zadie Smith: Swing Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected for SFMOMA's \u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'SFMOMA Text Offc',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.sfmoma.org\/event\/works-on-paper-book-club-swing-time-by-zadie-smith\/\" title=\"Works on Paper\"\u003eWorks on Paper \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003ebook club, August 27, 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eWhite Teeth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOn Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey—the same twists, the same shakes—and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 464 pages, 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5.5 x 8.3 in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47885329989810,"sku":"978-0143111641","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/8155\/9218\/files\/Zadie-Smith-Swing-Time-book-cover_1000x_24ef6997-1f09-4d1c-96c1-424bb009826f.jpg?v=1786638677","url":"https:\/\/museumstore.sfmoma.org\/products\/swing-time-zadie-smith-bk-club","provider":"SFMOMA Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}