Alexandra Fuller

Spend an evening with Alexandra Fuller, an award-winning writer and National Geographic contributor who has converted the experience of growing up amidst war and revolution into a powerful literary voice. Raised in Zimbabwe by English expats, Fuller's coming-of-age experience during that country's independence struggle provided material for two compelling memoirs, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. Join us for a moving exploration of Africa--and beyond--in a conversation hosted by National Geographic Traveler editor at large Don George. Tickets: $22. Wednesday. (SqueakyChu)… (more)

The Northshire Women Read group will meet on Monday, August 6th, 6pm at The Inn at Manchester. This month we will discuss the best selling memoir, Don't Lets Go To The Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller.

New members are always welcome. If you would like more information on this reading group, please contact nscheemaker@northshire.com.

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FRIDAY JULY 13 7p

Bestselling Author Alexandra Fuller speaking & signing Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness.

In this sequel to Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller returns to Africa and the story of her unforgettable family.

In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war- torn Africa of her own childhood. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is an intimate exploration of the author's family and Alexandra Fuller at her very best.

Alexandra Fuller was born in England in 1969 and in 1972 she moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia. After that country’s civil war in 1981, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. Fuller received a B.A. from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is the author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, and Scribbling the Cat, winner of the 2005 Ulysses Award for Art of Reportage. Fuller lives in Wyoming with her husband and children.

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From the author of the critically acclaimed, and bestselling, memoir Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood comes another unforgettable look at a family struggling to find peace and make a home on the continent they love. Focusing on her irrepressible Scottish mother who was raised in Kenya, Alexandra tells a story of changing lands, broken and crumbling, that transcends survival; overcoming war and madness with love, loyalty and forgiveness.

About the Author Alexandra Fuller grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, leaving, when that country’s civil war began, for Malawi, then Zambia. Her first book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award.

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“Electrifying…Writing in shimmering, musical prose… Ms. Fuller manages the difficult feat of writing about her mother and father with love and understanding, while at the same time conveying the terrible human costs of the colonialism they supported… Although Ms. Fuller would move to America with her husband in 1994, her own love for Africa reverberates throughout these pages, making the beauty and hazards of that land searingly real for the reader.” Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

“Another stunner… The writer's finesse at handling the element of time is brilliant, as she interweaves near-present-day incidents with stories set in the past. Both are equally vivid… With Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller, master memoirist, brings her readers new pleasure. Her mum should be pleased.” Cleveland Plain-Dealer

Alexandra Fuller is the author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Scribbling the Cat, and The Legend of Colton H. Bryant. She was born in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in southern Africa. She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In 1994 she moved to Wyoming, where she now resides.

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Wed, May 9, 1pm

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.

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Alexandra Fuller reads from The Legend of Colton H. Bryant.

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome bestselling author ALEXANDRA FULLER (Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight) to read from her newest book The Legend of Colton H. Bryant, Fuller's rendering of the brief and poignant life of one of Wyoming's native sons.

Colton H. Bryant never wanted to leave Wyoming. When it was time for him to marry and make money on his own, he took up as a hand on an oil rig. It was dangerous work, but Colton was the third generation in his family to work on the oil patch and he claimed it was in his blood. And anyway, he joked, he always knew he'd die young.

Colton did die young, and he died on the rig—falling to his death because the drilling company had neglected to spend two thousand dollars on the mandated safety rails that would have saved his life. His family received no compensation. (ablachly)… (more)

Alexandra Fuller reads from The Legend of Colton H. Bryant: The Story of a Wyoming Boy.

"Alexandra Fuller's first book, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, and was chosen the Book Sense Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2002. Fuller will read from and sign her new book The Legend of Colton H. Bryant: The Story of a Wyoming Boy ($23.95 The Penguin Press). In her book Scribbling the Cat, Fuller brought us the examined life of a Rhodesian soldier; now - in her inimitable poetic voice and with her pitch-perfect ear for dialogue - she brings before us the life of someone much closer to home, as unexpected as he is iconic." (jpmoore)… (more)