Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller’s second book covering her family’s experience in east Africa. The first, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, which her mother describes as an Awful Book, tells the story from her perspective. In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, she expands the story to includeContinue reading “Book Review: Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness”
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Book Review: Scribbling the Cat
“The windows of the pickup were rolled down because we, in common with everyone else in this part of the world, were jealous of every drop of fuel we spent. And, under these circumstances, air-conditioning (like the exorcism of war memories and the act of writing about it) was an unpardonable self-indulgence. K had goneContinue reading “Book Review: Scribbling the Cat”
Book Review: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller’s first memoir covers her childhood in Africa, including stints at boarding schools far from her parents, ending with her marriage to an American who brought her out of Africa and into another land. Her parents were grounded in Africa, her mother by birth and her father by experience. Yet after the death of theirContinue reading “Book Review: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight”
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