Fiction. African American Fiction. Literature. HTML: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 w