Previously mentioned on this thread in the past, but worth bringing to the top again:

Alexandra Fuller is a woman who grew up in Rhodesia during the bush war. Her first book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, is a memoir of her childhood. It's both a compelling and tragic work about a white family trying to survive both economically and emotionally as a family during those times. And as if the general circumstances weren't hard enough, the family loses 3 of 5 children to illness and accident.

Zanu "freedom fighters" living on her farm and watching her family day and night, an attack upon the nanny by the houseboy, a spitting cobra in the kitchen, a mother who spends the day with an Uzi strapped around her neck, the sexual molestation of the author and her sister by a neighbor, and the day-to-day heat, dirt, hunger and hardship of life in 1970's Rhodesia all make for a tragic and compelling story. One I believe anyone interested in that time in Rhodesia / Zimbabwe history has to read.

Fuller has other works of her time in Africa, one of which is Scribbling the Cat which is about her friendship with a Rhodesian war vet, their travels to various war sites and his memories of that time. It, too, is well worth the time.

Another of Fuller's works--which I have yet to read-- is about her mother as she lived through life in the Rhodesian bush, her alcoholism and mental illness, and the loss of 3 out of 5 children. If it's as good as her first book, I will probably finish it in one evening.

Anyone who hunts Zim, Bots, Zambia, Moz or RSA needs to read these books.

Thanks to my Africa hunting partner, Dr Dog Guy, for sharing these with me.

Ordered both books from Amazon for $11.98. Looking forward to a good read. Thanks for the recommendation.