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    A Conversation with Alexandra Fuller | Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

    A Conversation with Alexandra Fuller | Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

    Presented by Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library at Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

    September 20, 2011


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    Alexandra Fuller’s bestselling debut book, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, is a painful memoir of growing up in cruel and beautiful Rhodesia during the civil war.  The book was named a New York Times Notable Book for 2002. By the age of six, Fuller had learned how to use an Uzi submachine gun and basic first aid. Her experience of that war informs her other nonfiction books, Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier and The Legend of Colton H. Bryant. Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is an intimate rendering of the dazzling lavender Africa of her mother's childhood, the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English youth, and the violent Africa of her own childhood.


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        Free Library of Philadelphia - Parkway Central Library

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        September 20, 2011

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        7:30 pm

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