As her marriage collapses, the author of the international bestseller Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight relearns the fearless ways of her father to find her own true north. Standing in the wreckage of her marriage, in her adopted country America, Alexandra Fuller revisits the continent she loves and finds in her father's harsh, simple and uncompromising ways the key to her salvation. Casting a fresh eye on her parent's boisterous strengths and debilitating weaknesses, painting a vivid picture of America at the end of decades of false certainty and security, and revealing her Africa, vital and resilient, Leave Before the Rains Come is an astonishment - a memoir of such grace and intelligence, wit and courage that only Alexandra Fuller could have written it.
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“Fuller belongs in the pantheon of great memoirists, right alongside Mary
Karr, Tobias Wolff, and Frank McCourt. Not unlike those writers, Fuller has a
single trope—hers is a childhood spent as a British expat on a farm in
revolution-torn southern Africa—that she uses over and over to define and
clarify her life…While the book is ostensibly about their union, and its
ultimate dissolution, it is also about memory and childhood and nature and
modern life…Somehow, always, she finds another thread to weave into another
masterpiece.”
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Amazon.com, editorial review