Where Bones Dance: An English Girlhood, An African WarTerrace Books, 2007-04-01 - 318 psl. In this stunning debut novel, a child dissects the darkness at the heart of her British diplomatic family. Living in Nigeria on the brink of civil war, Anna—also known as Jake—becomes blood brothers with Dave, the Korean American daughter of a C.I.A. operative. They do push-ups, collect pornography, and plot lives of unmarried freedom while around them a country disintegrates. Luscious, terrifying, and raw, Nigeria itself becomes a lesson in endurance, suffering, love. Stories are layered upon stories: Anna's grandmother tells stories about life as a white woman on the Gold Coast; the clairvoyant and closeted "Aunt" Elsie gives Anna a story of transformation to hold onto in the coming tumult of adolescence. Yet Where Bones Dance also spirals down to the stories that are not told—sexual abuse, the myth of benign colonialism, the chaos of postcolonial Africa. Sensual and fantastical by turns, this moving, funny, immensely readable book delivers an understanding of the interplay of sexuality, gender, race, and war that is sophisticated beyond the years of its intrepid narrator. Winner, Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, Alberta Literary Awards, Writers Guild of Alberta Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians and the Public Library Association |
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... its name from the Memorial Union Terrace , located at the University of Wisconsin - Madison . Since its inception in 1907 , the Wisconsin Union has provided a venue for students , faculty , staff , and alumni to debate art , music ...
... its name from the Memorial Union Terrace , located at the University of Wisconsin - Madison . Since its inception in 1907 , the Wisconsin Union has provided a venue for students , faculty , staff , and alumni to debate art , music ...
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... its immediacy. It came from an unknown place inside myself. It was the first short story I ever got published and it contained the germ of this book. I made a list then of incidents, things, and people I associated with my time in ...
... its immediacy. It came from an unknown place inside myself. It was the first short story I ever got published and it contained the germ of this book. I made a list then of incidents, things, and people I associated with my time in ...
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... Mostly she looks like she is guarding a secret place in her mind and she only lets herself visit it sometimes but she always knows it's there . I want to know what it is . C Y C e 5 Beach y father pulls the engine cord . He is.
... Mostly she looks like she is guarding a secret place in her mind and she only lets herself visit it sometimes but she always knows it's there . I want to know what it is . C Y C e 5 Beach y father pulls the engine cord . He is.
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... it's not , it's just an old tree . ” My mother is fussing at him now , she'll have to cut the gum out of his hair but soon we eat ginger biscuits and the creek is wide grey green and the jungle on the right side is thick and purple and ...
... it's not , it's just an old tree . ” My mother is fussing at him now , she'll have to cut the gum out of his hair but soon we eat ginger biscuits and the creek is wide grey green and the jungle on the right side is thick and purple and ...
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... it's full of fish , let me see , there's a hammerhead shark and two barracuda and— ” " You can't see that far . " " Want to bet ? " " We'll see when he comes in . " My father pays the people . I want to run into the sea but we have to ...
... it's full of fish , let me see , there's a hammerhead shark and two barracuda and— ” " You can't see that far . " " Want to bet ? " " We'll see when he comes in . " My father pays the people . I want to run into the sea but we have to ...
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