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Fi - A Memoir Of My Son (Paperback)
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Fi - A Memoir Of My Son (Paperback)
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List price R440
Loot Price R393
Discovery Miles 3 930
You Save R47 (11%)
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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. From a sheep wagon deep in the
mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent
meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and down
the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve
herself 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 as a child in Zimbabwe. By turns disarming, devastating
and unexpectedly, blessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine
of painstakingly grieving a child in a culture that has no instructions
for it.
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