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Leaving before the rains come / Alexandra Fuller.

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 -- Leaving Before the Rains Come.

Scope and content: A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she finally confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. Fuller struggles to understand her younger self as she overcomes her current misfortunes. Fuller reveals how, after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her, she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to save ourselves.

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes

Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	East Bookmobile In East Office	300-399	305.4 FUL 2015 04/15	Available		30904000317476

Total holds: 0

A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of two deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she finally confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and about the family she left behind in Africa. Fuller struggles to understand her younger self as she overcomes her current misfortunes. Fuller reveals how, after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her, she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to save ourselves.