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Andrea
Sep 23, 2008 rated it it was ok
Shelves: africa, memoir, zimbabwe
I'm left puzzled by why the writer still doesn't see the connection between the fury and violence perpetrated against her friends and neighbors and the fury and violence used to create the system in the first place. She's clueless. ...more
Susan
Nov 26, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Not so much a story of Rhodesia becoming Zimbabwe as a childhood memoir, life in a very dysfunctional family. The death of her youngest sister is a catalyst to the author writing about their childhood.
Kimberly
Jun 09, 2010 marked it as to-read
Ruth
Jun 29, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: memoir-to-read
Mary Anne
Aug 09, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 2012-read
Jim
Jan 19, 2016 marked it as books-to-get