An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty
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 ...
Das Debüt einer Ausnahmeautorin Frech und einfühlsam, fordernd und klug "Wenn seine Mutter jetzt starb, dann saß er wenigstens an einem Tisch mit Tischdecke." Eine Liebesgeschichte zwischen großer Trauer und großem Glück Ein Debüt, das Aufsehen erregen wird