Swing Time Historical Fiction and what better to question

and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined

Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize - Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award

through breath and cadence and unrepentant

Part memoir and part manifesto

Swing Time Historical Fiction and what better to question"Smith's thrilling cultural insights never overshadow the wholeness of her characters, who are so keenly observed that one feels witness to their lives." O, The Oprah Magazine "A sweeping meditation on art, race, and identity that may be [Smith's] most ambitious work yet." Esquire A New York Times bestseller Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from