Fi: A Memoir of My Son by Alexandra Fuller Hardcover Book

Description: Fi by Alexandra Fuller The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child - from the award-winning and bestselling memoirist of Dont Lets Go to the Dogs TonightThe story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child - from the award-winning and bestselling memoirist of Dont Lets Go to the Dogs TonightTruly extraordinary HELEN MACDONALDA profound and gripping memoir about surviving unexpected, devastating loss SUNDAY TIMESA mesmeric celebration... Will help others surviving loss - surviving life NEW YORK TIMESIts midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra Fuller 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.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. By turns disarming, devastating and unexpectedly, blessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving a child in a culture that has no instructions for it. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Alexandra Fuller is the author of four memoirs, including Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight - a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-Fiction book, a finalist for the Guardians First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize - and the New York Times-bestselling Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, two books of non-fiction, and the novel Quiet Until the Thaw. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian and Financial Times. Review A truly extraordinary memoir about a mothers loss of her son: beautiful, fearless, raw and an utterly compelling read -- Helen Macdonald, author of H is for HawkFuller is a sublime writer. In the hands of another memoirist, the story of Fi might be unbearably sad, but this book is a mesmeric celebration of a boy who died too soon, a mothers love and her resilience. It will help others surviving loss - surviving life * New York Times *A devastating, profoundly moving and uplifting memoir – as told by a brave, wonderful mother who found herself ultimately able to withstand the most terrible of tests -- Ben Goldsmith, author of God Is An OctopusIncandescent, burning with both grief and life, a book so hot it melts the gold to mend the cracks of a smashed psyche in a brilliant act of literary kintsugi -- Jay Griffiths, author of WildAn astonishing memoir. Written in a rush of grief, it is full of beauty and pain: sensual and corporeal, spiritual and philosophical, and utterly human. Anyone who knows grief will learn something new here. I will never forget this book -- Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My FatherA gutting, terrifying, profound and defiantly enthralling read. Toward the end of the memoir, Fuller quotes Franz Kafka: A book must be an axe to the frozen sea inside us. This book is a sharp ax. By its end, I was moved and devastated yet somehow strengthened * Washington Post *In the wake of immense loss, what remains? With clear, luminous prose and courageous insight, Fuller investigates... The writing is so stunning, immediate, and heartfelt that the book is often as difficult to read as it is to put down. A true marvel of a memoir, simultaneously beautiful and devastating * Kirkus, *Starred Review* *Fullers prose is raw, primal and electric, pulling the reader into both her shock and her attempts to carry on with a heart cleaved in two. Readers who are experiencing their own grief will find solace here, while those whove been following Fuller for years through her beautifully written memoirs will want to be with her as she recounts this tragedy * Booklist *[A] memoir…as raw and heart-shattering as you would expect, while still being a thing of beauty * i *Life writers often want to be likeable. Fullers not in that camp: rawly bereft, she doesnt care how she comes across… Its no easy ride in her company, but thats the point: she doesnt spare us the pain inflicted by "the sharp knife of a short life" * Guardian * Details ISBN1787335100 Author Alexandra Fuller Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781787335103 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2024-07-11 Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Audience General UK Release Date 2024-07-11 ISBN-10 1787335100 Pages 272 Subtitle A Memoir of My Son Alternative 9781787335110 DEWEY 155.937092 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:160687779;

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