Leaving before the rains come
Title:
Leaving before the rains come
Author:
Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
Physical Description:
258 pages ; 25 cm
Summary:
The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband. --Publisher's description.
Language:
English
Contents:
And away we fly -- Madness in prescribed doses -- Decisions by Dionysus -- Mr. adventure's immunity -- Marital advice from a mildly stoned cook -- Marriage vows in the time of malaria -- Continental drift -- Marriage advice from the end of the world -- Signal flags -- The midday sun -- Last call on the African queen -- This grand inheritance -- Marriage in the time of cholera -- Babies in the time of yellow fever -- Mad beans, time, and ghosts -- The river runner and the rat race -- Fortune teller fish -- Falling -- Broken -- Cry for a whole people.
Geographic Term:
ISBN:
9781594205866
Format :
Book
