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Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia
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ISBN10: 0299295745
ISBN13: 9780299295745
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Feb 12 2007
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780299295745
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Feb 12 2007
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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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