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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... walking by my 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 ...
... walking by my 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 ...
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... walk down the path . I take my flip - flops off because they give me blisters and the sand is cool enough under the palm trees and the creeping plants don't prickle much . The sand slides through between my toes . Off to the right a man ...
... walk down the path . I take my flip - flops off because they give me blisters and the sand is cool enough under the palm trees and the creeping plants don't prickle much . The sand slides through between my toes . Off to the right a man ...
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... walk toward the teams but a little off course so if no one speaks to me I can just keep walking like I'm going some- where . To the bathroom . But instead I hold my breath and walk into them and somebody says , " Who's left ? 10 School.
... walk toward the teams but a little off course so if no one speaks to me I can just keep walking like I'm going some- where . To the bathroom . But instead I hold my breath and walk into them and somebody says , " Who's left ? 10 School.
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... the machete she comes running . Snake . There's a snake . It is a good snake . It has eaten a rat so it sleeps . We don't kill this snake , " she says . Dave U® in Helen's room I walk around . There. 13 Christine.
... the machete she comes running . Snake . There's a snake . It is a good snake . It has eaten a rat so it sleeps . We don't kill this snake , " she says . Dave U® in Helen's room I walk around . There. 13 Christine.
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... walk around . There isn't anything to look at . Everything is square and white and clean . She says , " Do know Judo ? " you She sticks out her hand and I shake it hard. " No , " I say . I will never catch up . Out of her closet Helen ...
... walk around . There isn't anything to look at . Everything is square and white and clean . She says , " Do know Judo ? " you She sticks out her hand and I shake it hard. " No , " I say . I will never catch up . Out of her closet Helen ...
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