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

A straight forward account of a girl growing up in Africa. No frills, yet descriptive--you can almost smell/feel what Fuller is describing in just a few words. An interesting book encompassing how life can be funny, tragic, unpredictable. I definitely recommend this book.

Good read, again better read the 2nd time. Story of being white in war torn 'Rhodesia'..slightly self indulgant in places..but overall worth reading

It's a wonderful and improbable story of white Africans told by an author who strikes a careful balance between telling the truth about her family and continuing to love for them.

Fuller has a surprisingly restrained sense of self-preservation. Her incisive gift for description is always nonjudgmental--something I'd never seen to this degree.

I read this in one sitting, it grabbed me from the start and just kept running. I would love to meet alexandra.

Who knows...I really couldn't get past the first couple chapters. Just so bleh...maybe I just wasn't ever in the right mood for this one.

Fabulous biography of a tough childhood spent in Africa where casual racisim was all the family had ...

Fuller's writing is excellent, although the pacing is a bit hit and miss, as if Fuller was afraid to leave anything out, however mundane. But even with that, the book has a tone and feel that is as menacing as the everpresent humidity and drunk soldiers with guns at the ready. A good book with some slow sections.

Brought back vividly the southern Africa of my childhood and teen years - the co-mingling of beauty and danger, joy and fear, harmony and violence that suffused my youth growing up under African skies.

Brings back hosts of memories with a single well placed word in a sentence! My family have also lived in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia, and some of this book reads like one of us could have written it ourselves! Simple, honest and a realistic account of difficult times in Africa through a child's eyes...