Random House N.Y.

Random House N.Y.

English

“This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.”—Newsweek   “By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.”—The New Yorker   “The Africa of this beautiful book is not easy to forget. Despite, or maybe even because of, the snakes, the leopards, the malaria and the sheer craziness of its human inhabitants, often violent but pulsing with life, it seems like a fine place to grow up, at least if you are as strong, passionate, sharp and gifted as Alexandra Fuller.”—Chicago Tribune   “Owning a great story doesn’t guarantee being able to tell it well. That’s the individual mystery of talent, a gift with which Alexandra Fuller is richly blessed, and with which she illuminates her extraordinary memoir. . . . There’s flavor, aroma, humor, patience . . . and pinpoint observational acuity.”—Entertainment Weekly   “This is a joyously telling memoir that evokes Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club as much as it does Isak Dinesen’s Out of Africa.”—New York Daily News   “Riveting . . . [full of] humor and compassion.”—O: The Oprah Magazine   “The incredible story of an incredible childhood.”—The Providence Journal   “Fuller’s look back at her early life in an English family at the violent tail end of colonialism is sad and hilarious.”—USA Today