Fi

by Alexandra Fuller

ISBN: 9781787335103

Published: 2024-07-11

From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career-defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child 'Truly extraordinary' HELEN MACDONALD 'A mesmeric celebration... Will help others surviving loss - surviving life' NEW YORK TIMES It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra Fuller is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel. And then - suddenly and incomprehensibly - her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep. No stranger to loss - young siblings, a parent, a home country - Alexandra is nonetheless levelled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done....