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Author:
Alexandra Fuller
Publisher:
Grove Press
Date:
April 9, 2024
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 thenâsuddenly and incomprehensiblyâher son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep. No stranger to loss, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve herself whole.
What The Reviewers Say
Fuller leaves nothing under the table, under the rug or under wraps.
A book that is as hard to pick up as it is to put down — a gutting, terrifying, profound and defiantly enthralling read.
A seductive read about unrelenting agony. Self-effacing, wise and dry, the author’s style may be described as "frenetic lyric".
Life writers often want to be likable, for readers to sit beside them and empathise. Fuller’s not in that camp: rawly bereft, she doesn’t care how she comes across..
