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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... girl was me . Some of the lies I told as a child were of the ordinary , boastful sort , but some were an attempt to tell truths that were at the time ( and for many years afterwards ) unspeakable . I have come to be- lieve that in each ...
... girl was me . Some of the lies I told as a child were of the ordinary , boastful sort , but some were an attempt to tell truths that were at the time ( and for many years afterwards ) unspeakable . I have come to be- lieve that in each ...
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... Girl , " traditional Calypso Journal of an expedition to explore the course and termination of the Niger , with a ... Girls , ed . Christian McEwen ( Beacon Press , 1997 ) ; and Resurgent : New Writings by Women , ed . Camille Norton and ...
... Girl , " traditional Calypso Journal of an expedition to explore the course and termination of the Niger , with a ... Girls , ed . Christian McEwen ( Beacon Press , 1997 ) ; and Resurgent : New Writings by Women , ed . Camille Norton and ...
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... girls on my bench say it too . They will say it over and over . " Tomahto . Doo yew have a butler . " I don't know the girls ' names , only Matthew's . We're in the clever half of third grade . He's top of the class but I'm going to be ...
... girls on my bench say it too . They will say it over and over . " Tomahto . Doo yew have a butler . " I don't know the girls ' names , only Matthew's . We're in the clever half of third grade . He's top of the class but I'm going to be ...
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... girl who let him through . When it's their turn the leader says , “ Red Rover , Red Rover , Let the Limey fly over " and I step out . Facing me is a girl wearing glasses . Her twin sister , Caroline , is in my class . She is Oriental ...
... girl who let him through . When it's their turn the leader says , “ Red Rover , Red Rover , Let the Limey fly over " and I step out . Facing me is a girl wearing glasses . Her twin sister , Caroline , is in my class . She is Oriental ...
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... girl girl . There is a little boy with a crew cut too . I look around for Bill . He's sitting under the table with his hands down his shorts . I wonder if he was sitting there all the time we were wrestling . " Where's Mum ? " he says ...
... girl girl . There is a little boy with a crew cut too . I look around for Bill . He's sitting under the table with his hands down his shorts . I wonder if he was sitting there all the time we were wrestling . " Where's Mum ? " he says ...
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