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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Alexandra Fuller

Start date: July 9, 2015

Finish date: July 10, 2015

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Jun 10, 2009 Kallie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: memoir

I knew next to nothing about the hard scrabble life of small farmers in South Africa. This is a funny, tough, and tender evocation of Ms. Fuller's family and upbringing, and good enough to reread. So I did reread it. This is a family with parents wealthy in inner resources, adventurous and capable, but still . . . The very hard circumstances of their lives, coupled with conflict and war and economic uncertainty and personal tragedy -- Fuller narrates all this so beautifully, with zero self-pity. ...more

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Sep 19, 2010 Liza rated it did not like it

Shelves: own, to-read-own

I did not find this book as interesting as I hoped. The disorganization of events did not sit well with me. All I know for sure is they were poor Anglo-Saxons living in Africa, [somewhat] racist and lived through many wars.

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