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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... inside myself. It was the first short story I ever got published and it contained the germ of this book. I made a list then of incidents, things, and people I associated with my time in Nigeria. Several years later, during a residency ...
... inside myself. It was the first short story I ever got published and it contained the germ of this book. I made a list then of incidents, things, and people I associated with my time in Nigeria. Several years later, during a residency ...
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... inside my body as big as my body clenching in a fist and I push her off of me . I have to lie there still until I very get back inside me . Dave says , " That wasn't Judo , that was wrestling . In Judo you know what you are going to do ...
... inside my body as big as my body clenching in a fist and I push her off of me . I have to lie there still until I very get back inside me . Dave says , " That wasn't Judo , that was wrestling . In Judo you know what you are going to do ...
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... 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 suit he is wearing is creamy grey linen . It was ...
... 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 suit he is wearing is creamy grey linen . It was ...
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