A review by banana_hutch
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa by Douglas Rogers

3.0

Based on my interests and reading preferences, I'm surprised I didn't enjoy this book as much as I was hoping to. I do love a memoir. However, I think there was a little bit of a disconnect for me because it was more of a memoir by-proxy. Rogers tells the story of his parents' farm in Zimbabwe, but he was only there intermittently over the years. I think I would have enjoyed this much more if this same story had been told by his parents, who lived on the farm all those years.

It was still an interesting and compelling tale - one that would have been extremely harrowing to live through. I just didn't feel any real urgency/fear/hope/etc. because it was his parents' story with bits of his own life woven in.