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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... doors of writing for me ; to the now defunct Cummington Community of the Arts , which gave me first a residency and then a job ; to Joan Lar- kin for years of fabulous conversation and a vital lead ; to Diane Cleaver , my agent , sadly ...
... doors of writing for me ; to the now defunct Cummington Community of the Arts , which gave me first a residency and then a job ; to Joan Lar- kin for years of fabulous conversation and a vital lead ; to Diane Cleaver , my agent , sadly ...
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... thanks to Alexa Jaffurs, who read the manuscript between lambing and haying, researched the chronology of the Biafran war, and is my compan- ion and my delight. e n t s xvi Cycle I * Good Snake 1965-1968 Lagos Lagos. The door.
... thanks to Alexa Jaffurs, who read the manuscript between lambing and haying, researched the chronology of the Biafran war, and is my compan- ion and my delight. e n t s xvi Cycle I * Good Snake 1965-1968 Lagos Lagos. The door.
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An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. Cycle I * Good Snake 1965-1968 Lagos Lagos. The door swings open. The breath of the Cycle I: Good Snake.
An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. Cycle I * Good Snake 1965-1968 Lagos Lagos. The door swings open. The breath of the Cycle I: Good Snake.
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An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. Lagos. Lagos. The door swings open. The breath of the jungle scorches my skin. Sweat and shit and tar and green, metal-. Lagos. lic as blood, the smell floods the plane, drowning the ...
An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. Lagos. Lagos. The door swings open. The breath of the jungle scorches my skin. Sweat and shit and tar and green, metal-. Lagos. lic as blood, the smell floods the plane, drowning the ...
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... door behind her . " " Red carries on lying there . I go and rub his chest . My father puts the newspaper down again . He looks at his watch and stands up . The suit he is wearing is creamy grey linen . It was made by a tailor in Hong ...
... door behind her . " " Red carries on lying there . I go and rub his chest . My father puts the newspaper down again . He looks at his watch and stands up . The suit he is wearing is creamy grey linen . It was made by a tailor in Hong ...
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