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

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a heart-wrenching yet captivating memoir that follows the life of Alexandra Fuller and her unforgettable mother in Africa.

This New York Times Bestseller is a tale of beauty, laughter, and resilience, as Fuller recounts her childhood growing up on several farms in southern and central Africa during the Rhodesian civil war.

Despite the challenges and dangers of living through such an inhospitable time, Fuller's mother instilled in her a love of reading and storytelling that proved to be her salvation.

With unsentimental and unflinching prose, Fuller stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.

This is not a book to be read just once, but one that will captivate readers over and over again with its hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling accounts.