TY - BOOK AU - Newington,Nina TI - Where bones dance: an English girlhood, an African war SN - 9780299222635 AV - PR6114.E946 W47 2007 U1 - 823/.92 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Madison PB - Terrace Books KW - Children KW - Fiction KW - British KW - Nigeria KW - Enfants KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - Britanniques KW - fast KW - History KW - 1960- KW - Civil War, 1967-1970 KW - Histoire KW - 1967-1970 (Guerre civile) KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N1 - Cycle I : good snake -- Cycle II : the English Ibeji -- Cycle III : the mosquite king -- Cycle IV : harvest of ghosts; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - Anna's mother and father, a sexually abusive drunk and rarely present British diplomat, respectively, provide little in the way of parenting, leaving Anna to find her own role models (such as Christine, the family's servant, or Aunt Elsie, her grandmother's "bloody queer" friend). Sheltered for the most part from the war, Anna and Dave together try to make sense of their rarified world UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=296531 ER -