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Dec 23, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Growing up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), “Bobo” Fuller has given us an insightful portrait of her fun-loving, ingenious English family. The rather extraordinary circumstances of her life in this southern African country before and during Mugabe’s rule are written about with compassionate realism: her mother’s fondness for gin & tonic in “watermelon porcupines”; their rather large troupe of seven lap-hopping disobedient dogs; the cook who was constantly toting a large marijuana cigarette, sprinkling ashes on everything he concocted in the kitchen; their father’s stubborn streak of independence which led them into constant adventure; and the truly agonizing loss of three adorable siblings at very young ages. It’s a wonderful read, opening up worlds intriguing and unknown to so many of us.