Leaving Before the Rains Come (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies & Memoirs Series) - Hardcover

Fuller, Alexandra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410478599 ISBN 13: 9781410478597

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2015

Synopsis

Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear. A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of 2 deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and the family she left behind in Africa. A breathtaking achievement, "Leaving Before the Rains Come" is a memoir of such grace and intelligence, filled with such wit and courage, that it could only have been written by Alexandra Fuller. "Leaving Before the Rains Come "begins with the dreadful first years of the American financial crisis when Fuller's delicate balance--between American pragmatism and African fatalism, the linchpin of her unorthodox marriage--irrevocably fails. Recalling her unusual courtship in Zambia--elephant attacks on the first date, sick with malaria on the wedding day--Fuller struggles to understand her younger self as she overcomes her current misfortunes. Fuller soon realizes that what is missing from her life is something that was always there: the brash and uncompromising ways of her father, the man who warned his daughter that "the problem with most people is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live." Fuller's father--"Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode" as he first introduced himself to his future wife--was a man who regretted nothing and wanted less, even after fighting harder and losing more than most men could bear. "Leaving Before the Rains Come "showcases Fuller at the peak of her abilities, threading panoramic vistas with her deepest revelations as a fully grown woman and mother. Fuller reveals how--after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her--she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to sa

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Review:

"Remarkable, beautifully written and fantastically entertaining... a compulsive read" (Observer)

"[An] honest, powerful and moving memoir" (Kate Figes Mail on Sunday)

"[An] urgent, eloquently fearless book" (Guardian)

"[A] bold, brave memoir of [Fuller’s] emancipation from the past" (The Times)

"Fuller doesn’t write misery memoirs. She writes warm, humorous and honest memoirs, and Leaving Before the Rains Come is another must-read" (Sunday Express)

Book Description:

The sequel to the international bestseller Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1410478599
• ISBN 13: 9781410478597
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 387