A new novel from bestselling, prize-winning Zadie Smith, author of }White Teeth{ and }On Beauty{. A story about friendship, music and true identity, how they shape us and how we can survive them, moving from north-west London to West Africa. 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 20s, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either...