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Don't Let's Go to Dogs Tonight

by Alexandra Fuller

Ms. Fuller reads from her book, Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, an autobiography portraying the life of a white African girl growing up in the midst of the Rhodesian civil war in the 1970s. She describes growing up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father enlisted in the war on the side of the white minority government and was often away fighting, leaving Alexandra, her mother, and her sisters to take on the rigorous daily farm work.