Fi: A Memoir of My Son
by: Alexandra Fuller (Author)
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date: 9 April 2024
Language: English
Print Length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 0802161049
ISBN-13: 9780802161048
Book Description
From the award-winning New York Times-bestsellingauthor of Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller, comes acareer defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of hertwenty-one-year-old child"A mesmeric celebration of a boy who died too soon, a mother's love and her resilience. It will help others surviving loss -- surviving life." -- David Sheff, New York Times"Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so beginsAlexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming andAlexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her homecountry of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecingher way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel.Andthen--suddenly and incomprehensibly--her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies inhis sleep.No strangerto loss--young siblings, a parent, a home country-- Alexandra is nonethelessleveled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb andabandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From asheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexicoto a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up anddown the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieveherself whole. There is no answer, and there are countless answers--in poetry, in rituals and routines, in nature and in the indigenous wisdom she absorbed asa child in Zimbabwe. By turns disarming, devastating and unexpectedly, blessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grievinga child in a culture that has no instructions for it.
About the Author
Review Praise for FiA New York Times Editors' ChoiceAn Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Biographies & Memoirs of April"Fuller is sagacious and perspicacious. She is a sublime writer. In the hands of another memoirist, the story of Fi might be unbearably sad, but this book is a mesmeric celebration of a boy who died too soon, a mother's love and her resilience. It will help others surviving loss -- surviving life." -- David Sheff, New York Times"A book that is as hard to pick up as it is to put down--a gutting, terrifying, profound and defiantly enthralling read . . . This book is a sharp ax. By its end, I was moved and devastated yet somehow strengthened." -- Marion Winik, Washington Post"Elegant and honest . . . [Fi] leaves the reader with a sense of having known a lovely and lively young man." --New York Times, Editors' Choice"In the wake of immense loss, what remains? With clear, luminous prose and courageous insight, Fuller investigates . . . The writing is so stunning, immediate, and heartfelt that the book is often as difficult to read as it is to put down. A true marvel of a memoir, simultaneously beautiful and devastating." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Fuller's prose is raw, primal, and electric, pulling the reader into both her shock and her attempts to carry on with a heart cleaved in two. Readers who are experiencing their own grief will find solace here, while those who've been following Fuller for years through her beautifully written memoirs will want to be with her as she recounts this tragedy." -- Booklist"[Fuller's] writing is always a knife pointed straight at the heart . . . [Her] fight for survival is against odds no parent should have to face, and it is unpadded and harsh. It means coming to terms with a loss Fuller is unsure she can handle without Fi to guide her. Fi is concerned with finding a way." -- Air Mail "A truly extraordinary memoir about a mother's lossof her son: beautiful, fearless, raw and an utterly compelling read."-- HelenMacdonald, author of H Is For Hawk"Fi is a devastating, profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting memoir--as told by a brave, wonderful mother who found herself ultimately able to withstand the most terrible of tests." -- Ben Goldsmith, author of God is An Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to NaturePraise for Alexandra Fuller "Whew boy, can Alexandra Fuller write."--NewYork Times"Fuller is a magnificent, insightfulwriter."--Washington Post"Owning a great story doesn'tguarantee being able to tell it well. That's the individual mystery of talent, a gift with which Alexandra Fuller is richly blessed."--Entertainment Weekly"[Fuller's] writing is astoundinglygood." -- Economist"Vivid, insightful and sly." -- People"By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling." -- NewYorker"Alexandra Fuller has always been abrave writer. We count on her bare-boned, carefully-crafted truths laced withwit and wisdom." --Terry Tempest Williams
About the Author Alexandra Fulleris the author of four memoirs, including Don't Let's Go To The DogsTonight - a New York Times Notable Book for 2002, the2002 Booksense Best Non-fiction book, a finalist for the Guardian's FirstBook Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize - andthe New York Times-bestselling Cocktail Hour Under the Treeof Forgetfulness, two books of non-fiction, and the novel QuietUntil The Thaw. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, NationalGeographic, Granta, The New York Times, Guardian andFinancial Times.
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