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Leaving Before the Rains Come
[Paperback - 2016]
alexandra fuller
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Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780143128427 | Pages: 272
Shipping Weight: .238 | Dimensions: 5.07 x .7 x 8.23 inches

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Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear
 
A child of the Rhodesian wars and of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller’s own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she confronts tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. Fuller soon realizes that what is missing from her life is something that was always there: the brash and uncompromising ways of her father. “Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode”—familiar to readers from Alexandra Fuller’s New York Times–bestselling memoir Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight—was a man who regretted nothing and wanted less, even after fighting harder and losing more than most men could bear.
 
Leaving Before the Rains Come showcases Fuller at the peak of her abilities, threading panoramic vistas with her deepest revelations as a fully grown woman and mother. Fuller reveals how—after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her—she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to save ourselves.
 
An unforgettable book, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a story of sorrow grounded in the tragic grandeur and rueful joy only to be found in Fuller’s Africa. 

“One of the gutsiest memoirs I've ever read. And the writing—oh my god the writing.” —Entertainment Weekly


Alexandra Fuller is the author of several memoirs: Travel Light, Move Fast, Leaving Before the Rains Come, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, and Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

About the Author

Alexandra Fuller has written five books of non-fiction.Her debut book,Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood(Random House, 2001), was a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense best non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian’s First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.Her 2004Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier(Penguin Press) won the Ulysses Prize for Art of Reportage.The Legend of Colton H Bryantwas published in May, 2008 by Penguin Press and was a Toronto Globe and Mail, Best Non-Fiction Book of 2008.Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulnesswas published in August 2011 (Penguin Press).Her latest book,Leaving Before the Rains Come, was published in January 2015 (Penguin Press).Fuller has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers includingthe New YorkerMagazine,National GeographicMagazine,VogueandGrantaMagazine. Her reviews have appeared in theNew York Times Book Review; The Financial Timesand theToronto Globe and Mail.Fuller was born in England in 1969 and moved to Africa with her family when she was two. She married an American river guide in Zambia in 1993. They left Africa in 1994 and moved to Wyoming, where Fuller still resides. She has three children.

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