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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... before . Mostly she looks like she is guarding a secret place in her mind and she only lets herself visit it sometimes but she always knows it's there . I want to know what it is . C Y C e 5 Beach y father pulls the engine cord . He is.
... before . Mostly she looks like she is guarding a secret place in her mind and she only lets herself visit it sometimes but she always knows it's there . I want to know what it is . C Y C e 5 Beach y father pulls the engine cord . He is.
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An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. Beach y father pulls the engine cord . He is six foot four . He bends his knees and pulls . The whole boat rocks and the brown water goes out in ripples . Everything smells of petrol ...
An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. Beach y father pulls the engine cord . He is six foot four . He bends his knees and pulls . The whole boat rocks and the brown water goes out in ripples . Everything smells of petrol ...
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... pulls me back to the beach . I swim , then I'm floating on the big waves like Popeye on the back of the whale . Sharks swim under my toes . I am riding the waves like sea horses cantering and now I want to ... pull up my bikini bottoms .
... pulls me back to the beach . I swim , then I'm floating on the big waves like Popeye on the back of the whale . Sharks swim under my toes . I am riding the waves like sea horses cantering and now I want to ... pull up my bikini bottoms .
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An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. my eyes . I pull up my bikini bottoms . They're full of pebbles . I feel them there , hard and little . My eyes are stinging . Up the beach I see my mother lying by the blue and white ...
An English Girlhood, An African War Nina Newington. my eyes . I pull up my bikini bottoms . They're full of pebbles . I feel them there , hard and little . My eyes are stinging . Up the beach I see my mother lying by the blue and white ...
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... pulling and then going loose and all our team looks at the boy and 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 ...
... pulling and then going loose and all our team looks at the boy and 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 ...
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