Leaving before the rains come
By: Alexandra Fuller
Publisher: Penguin Lcc Us; Penguin Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781594205866; 9781594206474
Subjects: Social life and customs; Divorced women; Family; Psychological aspects; Divorce; Biography
Description: The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: And away we fly; title: Madness in prescribed doses; title: Decisions by Dionysus; title: Mr. adventure's immunity; title: Marital advice from a mildly stoned cook; title: Marriage vows in the time of malaria; title: Continental drift; title: Marriage advice from the end of the world; title: Signal flags; title: The midday sun; title: Last call on the African queen; title: This grand inheritance; title: Marriage in the time of cholera; title: Babies in the time of yellow fever; title: Mad beans, time, and ghosts; title: The river runner and the rat race; title: Fortune teller fish; title: Falling; title: Broken; title: Cry for a whole people.