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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... the time ( and for many years afterwards ) unspeakable . I have come to be- lieve that in each of us the truth wants to tell itself . Often it can only do so through fiction . Acknowledgments Quotations from : " Brown Skin Girl , "
... the time ( and for many years afterwards ) unspeakable . I have come to be- lieve that in each of us the truth wants to tell itself . Often it can only do so through fiction . Acknowledgments Quotations from : " Brown Skin Girl , "
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An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. Acknowledgments Quotations from : " Brown Skin Girl , " traditional Calypso Journal of an expedition to explore the course and termination of the Niger , with a narrative of a voyage ...
An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. Acknowledgments Quotations from : " Brown Skin Girl , " traditional Calypso Journal of an expedition to explore the course and termination of the Niger , with a narrative of a voyage ...
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... brown water goes out in ripples . Everything smells of petrol . There is a skin on the water , shining blue and pink like the bubbles he taught us to blow in the bath . He squat- ted down by the side , rubbed soap in my hand , made me ...
... brown water goes out in ripples . Everything smells of petrol . There is a skin on the water , shining blue and pink like the bubbles he taught us to blow in the bath . He squat- ted down by the side , rubbed soap in my hand , made me ...
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... brown then a hairy reddish layer like a nest and then the hard green skin . My mother says , " We've never found coconuts like the ones we had in the Philippines when you were a baby . ” I eat the jelly , making my fingers into a spoon ...
... brown then a hairy reddish layer like a nest and then the hard green skin . My mother says , " We've never found coconuts like the ones we had in the Philippines when you were a baby . ” I eat the jelly , making my fingers into a spoon ...
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... brown , yellow , khaki , pools of color running into each other , a coil thickening , thicker than my arm , coils inward : snake . " Christine . Christine . Christine . " With the machete she comes running . “ Snake . There's a snake ...
... brown , yellow , khaki , pools of color running into each other , a coil thickening , thicker than my arm , coils inward : snake . " Christine . Christine . Christine . " With the machete she comes running . “ Snake . There's a snake ...
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