“…a story at once intimate and global, as much about childhood friendship as international aid, as fascinated by the fate of an unemployed single mother as it is by the omnipotence of a world-class singer … The grade school scenes are small masterworks of storytelling in which the child’s innocence is delicately threaded with the adult’s irony. If the style of Swing Time is less exuberant than her previous work, Smith’s attention to the grace notes of friendship is as precise as ever … Swing Time may be the most perceptive one I’ve read about the distortion field created by fame and wealth … Swing Time uses its extraordinary breadth and its syncopated structure to turn the issues of race and class in every direction.”
–Ron Charles, The Washington Post, November 9, 2016
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