![]() ![]() Together, as something more than friends, they go on a trip through the shateen, the back country, through Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. ![]() She befriends an odd, brusque neighbor, a mercenary named K. The family “was there when the war was there…it was stay and fight or get out.” In revisiting the land of her childhood, Fuller is also revisiting the war and its damage, internal and external. Her mother, still African to the core and “therefore cannot…waste anything at all,” can lament the death of a frog whose skin would have made “an interesting lamp shade.” In this book she returns to Zambia to visit her family after some years away in the United States. Her earlier Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight was an award-winning bestseller about her bizarre childhood. Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African SoldierĪlexandra Fuller was raised in Africa. Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier - book review Scribbling the Cat ![]()
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