In her 2001 memoir, Don?t Let?s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller offered a first-hand girl?s view of life in British-run Rhodesia as it transitioned violently into independent Zimbabwe and civil war played out in nearby Mozambique.
It won fans around the world. Her mother was not one of them. In fact, her mother, who refers to Alexandra as ?Bobo,? refers to the bestseller as ?that awful book.? It does present a brutally honest picture of her mum as sometimes unhinged, alcoholic, and racist ? but also hardworking and dedicated to their White African way of life.
A decade later, Fuller examines her mum?s life and background in more detail in her latest memoir, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. She came to Milwaukee last year for an event at Boswell Book Company, an on-stage interview Lake Effect's Mitch Teich was fortunate to moderate.
"You can?t, like six months through a pregnancy, go 'Ow, I am so over this,' and start pushing and have a baby.? And books are very similar.? You can?t have gathered all the ingredients for a book and then push and then the book comes out.? The book has to be stated really, I think." -author Alexandra Fuller
Fuller grew up in Africa; she now lives in Wyoming.
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