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From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child"Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel.And then - suddenly and incomprehensibly - her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep.
About the Author
Alexandra Fuller has written five books of non-fiction. Her debut book, (Random House, 2001) , was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense best non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian's First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Her 2004 (Penguin Press) won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage. was published in May, 2008 by Penguin Press and was a Toronto Globe and Mail, Best Non-Fiction Book of 2008. was published in August 2011 (Penguin Press) .Her latest book, , was published in January 2015 (Penguin Press) .Fuller has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers including Magazine, Magazine, and Magazine. Her reviews have appeared in the and the Fuller was born in England in 1969 and moved to Africa with her family when she was two. She married an American river guide in Zambia in 1993. They left Africa in 1994 and moved to Wyoming, where Fuller still resides. She has three children.
