Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, (Paperback)

from ursula

Alexandra Fuller's memoir of growing up in Africa was first of all, compulsively readable. I had a hard time putting it down. As is often the case in memoirs, her parents are kind of crazy, and it's easy to be as amused by their antics as you are appalled. Bobo, as Fuller is known in the book, is...

from AThurman

Definitely a story worth telling--covers both the familiar "my crazy family" and "my life in ---" memoir staples with energy. Interesting to get the perspective of a white African family in post-colonial Africa, told bluntly and seemingly without much retrospective whitewashing.

from LynnB

This autobiography starts with an absolutely chilling picture of 5 year old Alexandra Fuller loading her father's rifle. The opening of the book has stayed with me for years (I've read this book twice): Mum says, "Don't come creeping into our room at night." They sleep with loaded guns beside the...

from sharlene_w

This is a remarkable memoir of a white African child growing up during the in Rhodesian during civil war. She relates the trials of her daily life, the family problems, the racism, the horrors of an entire continent as they move from the country. I found it fascinating, especially since I have an...

from bookworm12

In her memoir of growing up in Africa, Fuller paints a vivid and unflinching portrait of her unconventional childhood. Alexandra, who goes by Bobo, lived with her parents and sister in Rhodesia in the midst of Civil War in the 1970s. The daily dangers they face become the norm as they grow up. Th...