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Photo: Ian Murphy<br />

n e w y o r k t i m e s b e s t s e l l e r<br />

Cocktail Hour Under<br />

the Tree of Forgetfulness<br />

Alexandra Fuller<br />

A story of survival and war, love and madness, loyalty and<br />

forgiveness, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness<br />

is an intimate exploration of Fuller’s parents and of the<br />

price of being possessed by Africa’s uncompromising,<br />

fertile, death-dealing land. In this follow-up to Don’t Let’s<br />

Go to the Dogs Tonight, we accompany Tim and Nicola<br />

Fuller as they hopscotch across the continent, restlessly<br />

trying to establish a home for their family. War, hardship,<br />

and tragedy follow the Fullers even as Nicola fights to hold<br />

on to her children, her land, and her sanity. But just when<br />

it seems that she has been broken by the continent she<br />

loves, the African earth revives and nurtures her. Cocktail<br />

Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness is Alexandra Fuller<br />

at her very best.<br />

AlexAndRA fulleR was born<br />

in England in 1969. In 1972, she moved<br />

with her family to a farm in southern Africa.<br />

She lived in Africa until her midtwenties. In<br />

1994 she moved to Wyoming, where she now<br />

resides.<br />

“ Electrifying . . . Writing in<br />

shimmering, musical prose . . .<br />

[Fuller’s] own love for Africa reverberates<br />

throughout these pages, making the beauty<br />

and hazards of that land searingly real for the<br />

reader.”<br />

—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times<br />

“ Ten years after publishing Don’t Let’s Go to the<br />

Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra<br />

(Bobo) Fuller treats us in this wonderful<br />

book to the inside scoop on her glamorous,<br />

tragic, indomitable mother.”<br />

—The Washington Post<br />

“ Subtly explores the intersections of personality,<br />

history and landscape in ways that are<br />

continually fresh and thoughtful.”<br />

—Charleston Post and Courier<br />

“ Fuller’s prose is so beautiful and so<br />

evocative that readers will feel that they, too,<br />

are sitting under that tree.”<br />

—Booklist (starred review)<br />

12-Copy Floor Display with special header<br />

ISBN 978-0-14-750804-1 $180.00 (NCR)<br />

Readers Guide available at penguin.com<br />

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