If you're fascinated by personal tales that are as much about place as they are about the people, then "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" could capture your imagination. Alexandra Fuller's memoir offers a vivid, unfiltered glimpse of growing up in Africa amidst political turmoil and familial eccentricity. With a blend of humor and poignancy, she manages to convey a sense of undying spirit and deep-rooted love for a continent that shaped her indelible resilience. It's a story that stays with you, demanding reflection on strength, survival, and the complexities of home.

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• Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2002)
• Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction (2003)
• Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (2002)

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.

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