Alexandra Fuller

Alexandra Fuller is a Zimbabwean-born American author whose memoirs about growing up in Africa during the final decades of colonialism and post-independence turmoil have earned wide acclaim. She is best known for Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is a memoir centred on her indomitable mother, Nicola Fuller, tracing the family's peripatetic, often chaotic life across Kenya, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi. Fuller writes with dark humour, unflinching honesty, and a deep understanding of the contradictions of white African life during a period of immense historical change. The audiobook and book versions offer listeners and readers a vivid, beautifully written family memoir. Fuller's work appeals to readers who appreciate memoirs set in extraordinary places and told with literary skill, self-awareness, and a sense of humour about the absurdities of history.