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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... father cuts the engine , swinging the boat to the left . They wade in the water and take the rope and tie it up on the jetty . We get out and my father passes things and the people take the things on their heads , the red and white ice ...
... father cuts the engine , swinging the boat to the left . They wade in the water and take the rope and tie it up on the jetty . We get out and my father passes things and the people take the things on their heads , the red and white ice ...
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... father pays the people . I want to run into the sea but we have to wait until he talks to the fishermen to see if it is safe today . I am standing on the sand , all I can hear is the ocean . Every month somebody drowns . My father is ...
... father pays the people . I want to run into the sea but we have to wait until he talks to the fishermen to see if it is safe today . I am standing on the sand , all I can hear is the ocean . Every month somebody drowns . My father is ...
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... tree which had pink fluffy flowers and I wanted to kick it and kick it . " My name is Jake , ” I say . “ I am a marine . ” Helen says , " My name is Dave . It's a code name . I am a spy . " Come on , " says my father , “. 14 Dave.
... tree which had pink fluffy flowers and I wanted to kick it and kick it . " My name is Jake , ” I say . “ I am a marine . ” Helen says , " My name is Dave . It's a code name . I am a spy . " Come on , " says my father , “. 14 Dave.
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... father picks up the newspaper again . She goes inside , closing the screen 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 ...
... father picks up the newspaper again . She goes inside , closing the screen 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 ...
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... father's hand . He prances a little . " Fetch , " says my father and he throws the ball . Red sits down . I run and stop it before it rolls into the lagoon . When I turn to throw it my mother is on the veranda . Here it smells of swamp ...
... father's hand . He prances a little . " Fetch , " says my father and he throws the ball . Red sits down . I run and stop it before it rolls into the lagoon . When I turn to throw it my mother is on the veranda . Here it smells of swamp ...
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