“Fuller, author of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, is back with another deeply personal memoir. After the collapse of her marriage, she finds herself unexpectedly looking back to her African childhood and eccentric family, and is forced to confront her life head-on. This honest and often wryly humorous book is not to be …
“Once again, Alexandra Fuller returns to the Africa of her first book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. This time, however, she writes from an adult’s view, and the focus of the book is her indomitable mother, who describes herself as “Nicola Fuller of Central Africa.” Mother describes the author’s first memoir as ‘Another …
Peter Brown Hoffmeister’s debut memoir, The End of Boys, is not an easy read. A boy shouldn’t cower from his family. He shouldn’t feel that every system exists to break him down. He shouldn’t be driven into darkness by a voice in his head. And just as sure, he shouldn’t have half a chance to …
