Alexandra Fuller

Nov 13, 2024 | audible.com | Salman Rushdie |David Henry Hwang |Anna Akbari |Alexandra Fuller

Many genres explore the beauty and misery of being human, but few get to the heart of it quite like bios and memoirs. This year offered a bounty of personal stories and intimate reflections, zeroing in on everything from community to coming of age. Yet these 10 listens stood out above the rest for their depth of storytelling, emotional resonance, unbridled vulnerability, and shimmers of humor and hope.

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Shannon Carlin |Alexandra Fuller

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Shannon CarlinNovember 13, 2024 8:21 AM ESTSix years ago, Alexander Fuller’s 21-year-old son died in his sleep.

May 12, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Alexandra Fuller

In this memoir of the unexpected death of her son, Fi, Alexandra Fuller pulls off quite a feat by simultaneously filling her voice with both life and loss. Fuller grew up in Zimbabwe (DON'T LET'S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT), and her rich, warm voice contains appealing traces of that accent. Fi died at age 21 despite having no real health problems, and grief and incomprehension are clear in every word Fuller utters. But she is acerbically funny, too.

May 4, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Alexandra Fuller

“And those universal edges --- birth, death --- they’re hard to take in completely, when they’re happening. It’s all going too fast, blood rushing to the head. Even the middling, middle bits --- stable-enough marriage, healthy kids, good income --- like the middle of a roundabout, you can think it’s all going quite manageably no matter how wildly the edges are quivering. I did; I thought I had it all under control….

Apr 19, 2024 | texarkanagazette.com | Alexandra Fuller |Marion Winik

Fi: A Memoir of My SonBy Alexandra Fuller; Grove (272 pp., $24.32)In one of the best-loved memoirs of the early aughts, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," Alexandra Fuller wrote of her childhood in Africa during the tumultuous 1970s and '80s. The author, who was born in England, spent much of her youth in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and her childhood was marked by adventure and tragedy, including three dead siblings.