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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... feel it pick me up . I hold my arms straight out in front of me and I open my eyes . I see black and white and green and blue all jumbled up and I am flying into them , into the middle of colors , and then the sand is scratching at my ...
... feel it pick me up . I hold my arms straight out in front of me and I open my eyes . I see black and white and green and blue all jumbled up and I am flying into them , into the middle of colors , and then the sand is scratching at my ...
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... feel them there , hard and little . My eyes are stinging . Up the beach I see my mother lying by the blue and white umbrella . It's like I'm looking through a tele- scope . I can see the pores in her skin like the holes termites make in ...
... feel them there , hard and little . My eyes are stinging . Up the beach I see my mother lying by the blue and white umbrella . It's like I'm looking through a tele- scope . I can see the pores in her skin like the holes termites make in ...
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... feel my arms pulling and then going loose and all our team looks at the boy and girl who let him through . When it's ... feel the sweat on the side of my nose . I feel my hand begin to go but I breathe and push her back . " One . Two ...
... feel my arms pulling and then going loose and all our team looks at the boy and girl who let him through . When it's ... feel the sweat on the side of my nose . I feel my hand begin to go but I breathe and push her back . " One . Two ...
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... feel them and they are thick and soft . “ This is a ghi , ” she says . “ Dad says it's part of our heritage . Well , Tae Kwon Do is , but Judo is what they teach here . ” I feel my face get red and shiny and like it is bigger than me ...
... feel them and they are thick and soft . “ This is a ghi , ” she says . “ Dad says it's part of our heritage . Well , Tae Kwon Do is , but Judo is what they teach here . ” I feel my face get red and shiny and like it is bigger than me ...
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... feels like water hitting the side of a boat and she is a sailor looking far away at the sky . I get slower and slower like a long wave pulling up and up and then it is the wind tangling in my chest and a scream starting in my belly and ...
... feels like water hitting the side of a boat and she is a sailor looking far away at the sky . I get slower and slower like a long wave pulling up and up and then it is the wind tangling in my chest and a scream starting in my belly and ...
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