Zadie Smith: Swing Time

$18.00 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Selected for SFMOMA's Works on Paper book club, August 27, 2026. 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…