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4.6 stars
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SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
 
“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes
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Book cover for "Don't let's go to the dogs tonight"
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CHILDHOOD IN ZIMBABWE.
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An autobiographical account of Alexandra Fuller's childhood in Zimbabwe. The author describes her childhood in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979, relating her life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia with an alcoholic mother and frequently absent father.
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MULTIGENERATIONAL MEMOIR THAT WEAVES TOGETHER HISTORY, LEGEND AND MEMORY OF THE AUTHOR'S FAMILY IN COLOMBIA.
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...