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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... Yellow Feather” shortly before he died. Who or what can Yellow Feather be? And where does Henry Kurt, the temporary headmaster of Woodson Academy, fit in? He insists that he is to inherit the school. Moreover, Kurt claims to have been ...
... Yellow Feather” shortly before he died. Who or what can Yellow Feather be? And where does Henry Kurt, the temporary headmaster of Woodson Academy, fit in? He insists that he is to inherit the school. Moreover, Kurt claims to have been ...
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... Yellow with other colors / Victoria Parker . p . cm . ( Mixing colors ) -- Summary : Shows different shades of yellow and the colors that result when yellow is mixed with other colors . Includes bibliographical references and index ...
... Yellow with other colors / Victoria Parker . p . cm . ( Mixing colors ) -- Summary : Shows different shades of yellow and the colors that result when yellow is mixed with other colors . Includes bibliographical references and index ...
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... Yellow Room. We heard her lock the door and shoot the bolt, so that I could not help laughing, and said to Monsieur: “There's Mademoiselle doublelocking herself in,—she must be afraid of the 'Bete du bon Dieu!'” Monsieur did not even ...
... Yellow Room. We heard her lock the door and shoot the bolt, so that I could not help laughing, and said to Monsieur: “There's Mademoiselle doublelocking herself in,—she must be afraid of the 'Bete du bon Dieu!'” Monsieur did not even ...
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Robert Browning. CHAPTER CONTENTS I THE STORY OF THE OLD YELLOW BOOK • A critical narrative of the facts drawn from the record in the Old Yellow Book , with a chronology of the events . II THE OLD YELLOW BOOK AND THE LAWYERS An ...
Robert Browning. CHAPTER CONTENTS I THE STORY OF THE OLD YELLOW BOOK • A critical narrative of the facts drawn from the record in the Old Yellow Book , with a chronology of the events . II THE OLD YELLOW BOOK AND THE LAWYERS An ...
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... Yellow Fever at Charleston , says " neglected intermittents frequently terminated in Yellow Fever . " See New York Medical Repository , vol . viii . p . 364. Drs . Rush , Caldwell , and eleven other physicians , had , in answer to a ...
... Yellow Fever at Charleston , says " neglected intermittents frequently terminated in Yellow Fever . " See New York Medical Repository , vol . viii . p . 364. Drs . Rush , Caldwell , and eleven other physicians , had , in answer to a ...
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