Autobiographical Fiction / Africa / Lesbian Interest
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Where
Bones Dance "Newington's prose is gorgeous-beautiful, difficult, painful, and lyric. It's poetry all the time."–Judith Katz, author of The Escape Artist 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. "I wish Dad would come home. I send him a thought in the air. To Biafra. He's flying in a plane with Prince Richard. It is dark except for the green light of the instrument panel. They are sitting close together in the little airplane. Prince Richard is steering. It is too dark to see except when a gun fires and then the ground is covered in dead bodies and the animals are taking legs and arms away in the bush to eat and the animals' eyes are green and shining."–excerpt from Where Bones Dance Nina Newington was born in Hong Kong and as a child lived in Germany, Israel, Nigeria, and Britain. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies, including New Writings by Women: Sinister Wisdom and The American Voice. She lives in the hills of western Massachusetts.
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