Alexandra Fuller has an insightful way to conveying her remembered events in comic and yet tragic ways that demonstrate the effect her childhood experiences have had on her formation. Her prior books recount her growing up in Rhodesia during Apartheid and her family having to deal with losses. This book is slightly different in that it is her account of a trip through Zambia and Mozambique with a former soldier and demonstrates the effect war had on both as they relive the horrors and the humor that K experienced as a soldier from the losing side. Overall I enjoyed the ride with them, but this is a deeply psychological book and should be examined from the point of looking at the after effects that war creates - not just from the Rhodesian war but from any war.