MINUS THE MORNING
Born in Rhodesia during a time of civil war, this author experienced these salient aspects of Rhodesia (and Zimbabwe): being a poor white, performing garden chores, accepting hand-me-downs for clothing and having one's mother cut one's hair.
The effect of censorship and right wing conservative ideology meant living life in an ideological bubble and evading my father's inexplicable fits of rage.The results of migrating were thoroughly disastrous -- until then, life had been a wry amusement. A fundamental aspect of my experience after migration was that I felt worn out by the war -- I was "old" before my time -- whereas, after migration, people were inclined to treat me as if I knew less about reality than they did. Needless to say, their experiences of life had been entirely different from mine.
This book makes merry with my younger self in an ironic, joking style.
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