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

This memoir of a childhood in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Malawi and Zambia is about living through a civil war. It is about losing children and losing that war, and realising that the side you have been fighting for may well be the 'wrong' one.

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In "Don' t Let' s Go to the Dogs Tonight," Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller' s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller' s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.