Binding: Hardcover
Description: A ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother in this striking debut (Oprah Daily). At twenty - two years old Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she's promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She's instantly catapulted into celebrity heralded for her inspirational role as the first Black ballerina in the famed company's history. Even as she celebrates the achievement of a lifelong dream Cece remains haunted by the feeling that she doesn t belong. As she waits for some feeling of rightness that doesn t arrive she begins to unravel the loose threads of her past an absent father a pragmatic mother who dismisses Cece's ambitions and a missing older brother who stoked her childhood love of ballet but disappeared to deal with his own demons. Soon after her promotion Cece is faced with a choice that has the potential to derail her career and shatter the life she's cultivated for herself sending her on a pilgrimage to both find her brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the grinding machinery of the traditional ballet world. Written with spellbinding beauty and ballet's precise structure Dances centers around women art and power and how we come to define freedom for ourselves.
Title: Dances
Author(s): Cuffy Nicole
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780593498156
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 5/16/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction