Author Alexandra Fuller to Speak at City Library (SLC: Aug 26)

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Alexandra Fuller to Speak at City Library
Author to discuss works, including latest title, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

August 16, 2011, SALT LAKE CITY -- Alexandra Fuller, author of the national bestseller Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, will speak about her latest title, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, at the Main Library Auditorium at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, August 26. The event, cosponsored by The City Library and Sam Weller’s Bookstore, will provide audience members an intimate look at Fuller’s family’s experience in Africa, focusing on her mother.

From the publisher:

In her critically acclaimed debut memoir, Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller recalled in vivid, often excruciating detail coming of age in Rhodesia as a long civil war raged in neighboring Monzambique. With astounding candor and in wry, sometimes hilarious prose, she described from a girl’s point of view a wild landscape of far-reaching beauty and a continent in the throes of a vicious political antagonism she could not yet comprehend.

In Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (The Penguin Press; August 18, 2011), Fuller returns to the place of her childhood in both a prequel and sequel to Dogs that tells more of her family’s story, namely that of her mother, Nicola Fuller of Central Africa, “surely one of the most memorable characters of African memoir” (New York Times Book Review). With unflinching honesty and humor, Fuller reveals Nicola in all of her complexity, and captures her inimitable voice with remarkable precision.

Fuller has written four books of non-fiction. Her debut book, Don’t Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight (Random House, 2001), was a national bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2002, the 2002 Booksense best non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.

Fuller has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers, including The New Yorker, National Geographic, Vogue and Granta Magazine.

Fuller was born in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in Rhodesia. After that country’s civil war in 1981, the Fullers moved first to Malawi, then to Zambia. She received a B.A. in English literature from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

In 1993, Fuller married an American river guide in Zambia in 1993. They left Africa in 1994 and now live in Wyoming with three children.





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