{"product_id":"fi-a-memoir-of-my-son-paperback","title":"Fi: A Memoir of My Son - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlexandra Fuller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, \u003c\/i\u003e Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A mesmeric celebration of a boy who died too soon, a mother's love and her resilience. It will help others surviving loss -- surviving life.\" -- David Sheff, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.\" And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, \u003cem\u003eFi\u003c\/em\u003e. It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then - suddenly and incomprehensibly - her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo stranger to loss - young siblings, a parent, a home country - Alexandra is nonetheless leveled. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Fuller\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four memoirs, including \u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e- a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book for 2002, the 2002 Booksense Best Non-fiction book, a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian's\u003c\/i\u003e First Book Award and the winner of the 2002 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize - and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling \u003ci\u003eCocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness\u003c\/i\u003e, two books of non-fiction, and the novel \u003ci\u003eQuiet Until The Thaw\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 08, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44418385084518,"sku":"9780802164964","price":25.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/WJXeXU0xEF9780802164964.webp?v=1770061871","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/fi-a-memoir-of-my-son-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}