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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... War Nina Newington. Any sorrow can be borne if a story can be told about it. Isak Dinesen Some events do take place but are not true; others are although they never occurred. Elie Wiesel xiii XV 44 45 50 53 56 59 62 64.
... War Nina Newington. Any sorrow can be borne if a story can be told about it. Isak Dinesen Some events do take place but are not true; others are although they never occurred. Elie Wiesel xiii XV 44 45 50 53 56 59 62 64.
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... ? " If I go there we will all be hungry . " I look at her face . I want to ask more questions . I saw her laugh one time , her breasts shook and her hands spread wide . She stamped her foot . I never saw anyone laugh like. 4 Lines.
... ? " If I go there we will all be hungry . " I look at her face . I want to ask more questions . I saw her laugh one time , her breasts shook and her hands spread wide . She stamped her foot . I never saw anyone laugh like. 4 Lines.
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An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. stamped her foot . I never saw anyone laugh like that before . Mostly she looks like she is guarding a secret place in her mind and she only lets herself visit it sometimes but she ...
An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. stamped her foot . I never saw anyone laugh like that before . Mostly she looks like she is guarding a secret place in her mind and she only lets herself visit it sometimes but she ...
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... never found coconuts like the ones we had in the Philippines when you were a baby . I eat the jelly , making my fingers into a spoon . The boy's stom- ach is round like a coconut , like he ate a whole one , but his arms C Y C e 7 ...
... never found coconuts like the ones we had in the Philippines when you were a baby . I eat the jelly , making my fingers into a spoon . The boy's stom- ach is round like a coconut , like he ate a whole one , but his arms C Y C e 7 ...
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... e ( D School ' m sitting at one end of the bench. ment between waves . The waves are taller than me . They're taller than my father . When they curl up at the top I see fish swimming in them . 9 " No , " I say . I will never.
... e ( D School ' m sitting at one end of the bench. ment between waves . The waves are taller than me . They're taller than my father . When they curl up at the top I see fish swimming in them . 9 " No , " I say . I will never.
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