First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros - Swing Time; Zadie Smith

Every Tuesday I host First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros sharing the first paragraph, maybe two, of a book that I'm reading or plan to read soon. 

Swing Time; Zadie Smith

Penguin - 2017

Prologue

"It was the first day of my humiliation.  Put on a plane, sent back home, to England, set up with a temporary rental in St. John's Wood.  The flat was on the eighth floor, the windows looked over the cricket ground.  It had been chosen, I think, because of the doorman, who blocked all inquiries.  I stayed indoors. The phone on the kitchen wall rang and rang, but I was warned not to answer it and to keep my own phone switched off.  I watched the cricket being played, a game I don't understand, it offered no read distraction, but still it was better than looking at the interior of that apartment, a luxury condo, in which everything had been designed to be perfectly neutral, with all significant corners rounded, like an iPhone. When the cricket finished I stared at the sleek coffee machine embedded in the wall, and at two photos of the Buddha--one a brass Buddha, the other wood--and at a photo of an elephant kneeling next to a little Indian boy, who was also kneeling.  The rooms were tasteful and gray, linked by a pristine hallway of tan wood cord. I stared at the ridges in the cord.

Based on this intro, would you read more or pass on this book?

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