{"title":"Alexandra Fuller","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"fi-a-memoir-of-my-son-alexandra-fuller-hardcover","title":"Fi: A Memoir of My Son -- Alexandra Fuller, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling\u003cbr\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, \u003c\/i\u003e Alexandra Fuller, comes a\u003cbr\u003ecareer defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her\u003cbr\u003etwenty-one-year-old child\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fair to say, \u003cbr\u003eI was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.\" And so begins\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home\u003cbr\u003ecountry of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing\u003cbr\u003eher way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, \u003cbr\u003eAlexandra vows to get herself back on even keel.And\u003cbr\u003ethen--suddenly and incomprehensibly--her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in\u003cbr\u003ehis sleep.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo stranger\u003cbr\u003eto loss--young siblings, a parent, a home country-- Alexandra is nonetheless\u003cbr\u003eleveled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and\u003cbr\u003eabandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From a\u003cbr\u003esheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico\u003cbr\u003eto a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and\u003cbr\u003edown the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve\u003cbr\u003eherself whole. There is no answer, and there are countless answers--in poetry, \u003cbr\u003ein rituals and routines, in nature and in the indigenous wisdom she absorbed as\u003cbr\u003ea child in Zimbabwe. By turns disarming, devastating and unexpectedly, \u003cbr\u003eblessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving\u003cbr\u003ea child in a culture that has no instructions for it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexandra Fuller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802161048\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2024 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra Fuller\u003cbr\u003eis the author of four memoirs, including \u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go To The Dogs\u003cbr\u003eTonight\u003c\/i\u003e - a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book for 2002, the\u003cbr\u003e2002 Booksense Best Non-fiction book, a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian's\u003c\/i\u003e First\u003cbr\u003eBook Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize - and\u003cbr\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling \u003ci\u003eCocktail Hour Under the Tree\u003cbr\u003eof Forgetfulness\u003c\/i\u003e, two books of non-fiction, and the novel \u003ci\u003eQuiet\u003cbr\u003eUntil The Thaw\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational\u003cbr\u003eGeographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexandra Fuller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45061742067940,"sku":"9780802161048","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780802161048.jpg?v=1719531195"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/collections\/alexandra-fuller.oembed","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}