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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. In cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness alexandra fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly lit, happy valleyera africa of her mothers childhood. Sep 09, 2011 ten years ago, alexandra fuller wrote an acclaimed memoir about her seventies childhood in the country formerly known as rhodesia. A story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and forgiveness, cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness is an intimate exploration of fullers parents, whom readers first met in dont lets go to the dogs tonight, and of the price of being possessed by africas uncompromising, fertile, deathdealing land. In 1972, she moved with her family to a farm in southern africa. Fuller celebrates her mothers unconventional life in africa with a book thats both prequel and sequel to her acclaimed memoir dont lets go to the dogs tonight. Born on the scottish isle of skye and raised in kenya, nicola fuller holds. Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness tells the story of the authors mother, nicola fuller. Cleveland plaindealer fullers narrative is a love story to africa and her family. Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness is a gorgeously written memoir about alexandra fullers life. Cocktail hour under the tree of forgetfulness, by alexandra. Alexandra fullers acclaimed memoir, dont lets go to the dogs tonight, recounted her turbulent 1970s upbringing in conflicttorn zimbabwe.
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