{"product_id":"fi-a-memoir-of-my-son","title":"Fi: A Memoir of My Son","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling\u003cbr\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eDon't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, \u003c\/i\u003e Alexandra Fuller, comes a\u003cbr\u003ecareer defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her\u003cbr\u003etwenty-one-year-old child\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fair to say, \u003cbr\u003eI was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday.\" And so begins\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home\u003cbr\u003ecountry of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing\u003cbr\u003eher way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, \u003cbr\u003eAlexandra vows to get herself back on even keel.And\u003cbr\u003ethen--suddenly and incomprehensibly--her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in\u003cbr\u003ehis sleep.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo stranger\u003cbr\u003eto loss--young siblings, a parent, a home country-- Alexandra is nonetheless\u003cbr\u003eleveled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and\u003cbr\u003eabandon her two surviving daughters as her mother before her had done. From a\u003cbr\u003esheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico\u003cbr\u003eto a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and\u003cbr\u003edown the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve\u003cbr\u003eherself whole. There is no answer, and there are countless answers--in poetry, \u003cbr\u003ein rituals and routines, in nature and in the indigenous wisdom she absorbed as\u003cbr\u003ea child in Zimbabwe. By turns disarming, devastating and unexpectedly, \u003cbr\u003eblessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving\u003cbr\u003ea child in a culture that has no instructions for it.\r","brand":"Alexandra Fuller","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44445295476972,"sku":"9780802161048","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780802161048.jpg?v=1709487842","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/fi-a-memoir-of-my-son","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}