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There are very few books that I read that I want to re-read immediately, if at all. I have read this book three times and had my book group read it. Alexandra Fuller does such an amazing job of speaking in her childhood voice throughout this memoir. Her childhood was not easy and had a number of unusual and uncomfortable aspects to it, yet as a child you don't have the perspective to know how strange your life is. She writes about her life from the perspective of that child who, as the reader, you watch start to realize that her parents have issues and that maybe their approach to life is not completely normal. The memoir is also a truly poignant description of race relations in Africa and the politics in the region. The book does not try to gloss over family or racial issues or politics but because Alexandra is able to so wonderfully tell her story from a child's perspective, many of the painful moments have a simple humor to them.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
PDXgal, January 4, 2010
There are very few books that I read that I want to re-read immediately, if at all. I have read this book three times and had my book group read it. Alexandra Fuller does such an amazing job of speaking in her childhood voice throughout this memoir. Her childhood was not easy and had a number of unusual and uncomfortable aspects to it, yet as a child you don't have the perspective to know how strange your life is. She writes about her life from the perspective of that child who, as the reader, you watch start to realize that her parents have issues and that maybe their approach to life is not completely normal. The memoir is also a truly poignant description of race relations in Africa and the politics in the region. The book does not try to gloss over family or racial issues or politics but because Alexandra is able to so wonderfully tell her story from a child's perspective, many of the painful moments have a simple humor to them.(3 of 4 readers found this comment helpful)