Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

Fuller, Alexandra, 1969-

Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2011.

Format: Large Print

Edition: Large print edition.

Description: 361 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm

Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly-lit, Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war-torn Africa of her own. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, this intimate exploration of Fuller's family - at its heart, the story of her mother, Nicola - is as funny, terrifying, exotic, and unselfconscious as Nicola herself.

Subjects:
Fuller, Nicola, 1944-
Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- -- Family.
Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- -- Childhood and youth.
Mothers and daughters -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.
Women -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.
British -- Zimbabwe -- Biography.
Large type books.
Zimbabwe -- Biography.
Zimbabwe -- Social life and customs.
Zimbabwe -- History -- 1965-1980.

ISBN: 9781410439413 (hardcover)