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Zadie Smith: Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017 (2016, Penguin Press) 4 stars

"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the …

Review of 'Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

I read this mostly because I haven't read a Zadie Smith novel in years, even though the blurb about the book didn't sound very enticing. I didn't really click with the navel gazing first person protagonist, but Zadie Smith's writing carried the story enough to get me through it.