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Dances: A Novel | Nicole Cuffy
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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.
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vlwelser
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This was kind of a slow burn. I read a lot of these ballet books. This is about a young woman that's trying to find herself. Low pick.

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kissmehardy
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Yeah, the storytelling in this book was wonderful and Cece's journey was moving and layered, but what I appreciated most of all was that she didn't write off ballet entirely just because she knew its flaws and downsides. More of this, please! (And more books by Nicole Cuffy, please.) #contemporaryfiction #literaryfiction

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KristiAhlers
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This title comes out in May and it's a story with strong #balletthemes, and as a former dancer I appreciated how the author included ballet within this at times heartbreaking and uplifting read. To be fair this story had a lot going on within the pages but hang in there you will be rewarded with a satisfying read.