Overview
āA compelling novel about the spiritual and bodily costs of the dogged pursuit of art.āāRaven Leilani, author of Luster
At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when sheās promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. Sheās instantly catapulted into celebrity, heralded for her āinspirationalā role as the first Black ballerina in the famed companyās history. Even as she celebrates the achievement of a lifelong dream, Cece remains haunted by the feeling that she doesnāt belong. As she waits for some feeling of rightness that doesnāt arrive, she begins to unravel the loose threads of her pastāan absent father, a pragmatic mother who dismisses Ceceās 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 sheās 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 balletās precise structure, Dances centers around women, art, and power, and how we come to define freedom for ourselves.
This book title, Dances (A Novel), ISBN: 9780593498170, by Nicole Cuffy, published by Random House Publishing Group (March 5, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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