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, Annaalso known as Jakebecomes 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 toldsexual 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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... 238 Ship 247 Hole 239 Cycle IV: Harvest of Ghosts Beach 253 Oil 278 Harbor 256 Under 281 Pole 258 Fancy Dress 283 Death 263 Eye 287 Malaria 167 Green 289 Man 269 Free 291 Spy 270 Nothing 293 Doll 275 The Sea, The Sea 296 xi.
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... green-brown tunnel. The trees are re- flected in the water. There's no sky. Look, says Bill, there's a crocodile. Another one, I say. You're always seeing crocodiles. His mouth moves like a cow chewing cud, but fast 6 Beach.
... green-brown tunnel. The trees are re- flected in the water. There's no sky. Look, says Bill, there's a crocodile. Another one, I say. You're always seeing crocodiles. His mouth moves like a cow chewing cud, but fast 6 Beach.
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... green and the jungle on the right side is thick and purple and black. Faces look out at me. I see their eyes. But when I look back, they're gone. We go on and then we reach the place where there's a little wooden jetty. There are people ...
... green and the jungle on the right side is thick and purple and black. Faces look out at me. I see their eyes. But when I look back, they're gone. We go on and then we reach the place where there's a little wooden jetty. There are people ...
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... 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 belly. I run out of the water before the next wave comes. I wipe the salt from C y c l e 1 my eyes. I pull up my ...
... 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 belly. I run out of the water before the next wave comes. I wipe the salt from C y c l e 1 my eyes. I pull up my ...
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... green dress. It floats around her. Her hair looks very black and shiny against my father's creamy grey jacket. He puts his arm around her and they walk into the house. He closes the screen door again. Red gets up and walks slowly around ...
... green dress. It floats around her. Her hair looks very black and shiny against my father's creamy grey jacket. He puts his arm around her and they walk into the house. He closes the screen door again. Red gets up and walks slowly around ...
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