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Where Bones Dance: An English Girlhood, An African War (2007) -- Nominated 2007 Lambda Literary Award for
Lesbian Debut Fiction
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.
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