num_pages: 240
description: From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller the utterly original story of her father Tim Fuller and a deeply felt tribute to a life well livedSix months before he died in Budapest Tim Fuller turned to his Let me tell you the secret to life right now in case I suddenly give up the ghost. Then he lit his pipe and stroked his dog Harrys head. Harry put his paw on Dads lap and they sat there the two of them one man and his dog keepers to the secret of life. Well? she said. Nothing comes to mind quite honestly Bobo he said with some surprise. Now that I think about it maybe there isnt a secret to life. Its just what it is right under your nose. What do you think Harry? Harry gave Dad a look of utter agreement. He was a very superior dog. Well there you have it Dad said. After her fathers sudden death Alexandra Fuller realizes that if she is going to weather his loss she will need to become the parts of him she misses most. So begins Travel Light Move Fast  the unforgettable story of Tim Fuller a self-exiled black sheep who moved to Africa to fight in the Rhodesian Bush War before settling as a banana farmer in Zambia. A man who preferred chaos to predictability to revel in promise rather than wallow in regret and who was more afraid of becoming bored than of getting lost he taught his daughters to live as if everything needed to happen all together all at onceor not at all. Now in the wake of his death Fuller internalizes his lessons with clear eyes and celebrates a man who swallowed life whole.A master of time and memory Fuller moves seamlessly between the days and months following her fathers death as she and her mother return to his farm with his ashes and contend with his overwhelming absence and her childhood spent running after him in southern and central Africa. Writing with reverent irreverence of the rollicking grand misadventures of her mother and father bursting with pandemonium and tragedy Fuller takes their insatiable appetite for life to heart. Here in Fullers Africa is a story of joy resilience and vitality from one of our finest writers.
language: English
title: Travel Light, Move Fast
publisher: Penguin Books