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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... side through the valley of the shadow. And thanks to all the friends who have read and commented on this manuscript: Carol Potter, Dee Dee Niswonger, Dvora Cohen, Emerald O'Leary, Moira Gentry, to name only a few. For scanning the old ...
... side through the valley of the shadow. And thanks to all the friends who have read and commented on this manuscript: Carol Potter, Dee Dee Niswonger, Dvora Cohen, Emerald O'Leary, Moira Gentry, to name only a few. For scanning the old ...
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... side , rubbed soap in my hand , made me clench it in a fist and then slowly , slowly open my forefinger and thumb in an O. “ Blow now , gently , ” he said . The film of soap went out like a long tongue and then it became a perfect ...
... side , rubbed soap in my hand , made me clench it in a fist and then slowly , slowly open my forefinger and thumb in an O. “ Blow now , gently , ” he said . The film of soap went out like a long tongue and then it became a perfect ...
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... 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 there already . My father ...
... 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 there already . My father ...
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... side , small like seeds . Right after a wave comes in I run into the water and I dive through the one that's curling up and I swim hard before it pulls me back to the beach . I swim , then I'm floating on the big waves like Popeye on ...
... side , small like seeds . Right after a wave comes in I run into the water and I dive through the one that's curling up and I swim hard before it pulls me back to the beach . I swim , then I'm floating on the big waves like Popeye on ...
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... side , their hand around my wrist and mine around theirs . A big boy runs at us and I feel my arms 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 ...
... side , their hand around my wrist and mine around theirs . A big boy runs at us and I feel my arms 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 ...
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