--- product_id: 22692090 title: "Alexandra FullerLeaving Before the Rains Come" brand: "alexandra fuller" price: "131 zł" currency: PLN in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.pl/products/22692090-alexandra-fullerleaving-before-the-rains-come store_origin: PL region: Poland --- # Alexandra FullerLeaving Before the Rains Come **Brand:** alexandra fuller **Price:** 131 zł **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Alexandra FullerLeaving Before the Rains Come by alexandra fuller - **How much does it cost?** 131 zł with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pl](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/22692090-alexandra-fullerleaving-before-the-rains-come) ## Best For - alexandra fuller enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted alexandra fuller brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Alexandra FullerLeaving Before the Rains Come - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/WEBP_402378-T1/images/I/51l+ccMLLML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This author knows how to WRITE! Mesmerizing. Luscious. *by B***C on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 29, 2019* Stunning. Enthralling. Poignant. Astounding. Jaw-dropping. Witty. Breathtaking. Educational. Awesome. Courageous. Electrifying. Pulverizing. Shimmering. Stunning. Searing. Vibrant. Evocative. I give up, there are not enough adjectives for me to use to describe Fuller's incredible memoirs of her and her family's life/experiences in Africa - many of these adjectives have been used in many of the wonderful Editorial Reviews.Although each of Fuller's three memoirs can be read as 'stand alones', part of me would recommend reading them in the order they were written. Firstly, "Let's Not Go To The Dogs Tonight", then "Cocktails Under the Tree of Forgetfulness", then "Leaving Before the Rains Come" (the latter incidentally is a South Africanism for 'get out while you can'). How could one NOT read these memoirs based solely on their titles and book covers????I, however, read the second memoir first, could not download the third one fast enough, and am just embarking on the first one, which describes Fuller's growing-up years in Africa. I am addicted to Fuller's family and their heart-wrenching journeys.Fuller's second memoir ("Cocktails...") was written 10 years after her first. In the second, she provides greater details about her unbelievable mother and her mother's remembered childhood. (Fuller's mother called the first memoir 'The Awful Book'!). As one reviewer put it: "This narrative is a love story to Africa and Fuller's family'. "Cocktails..." is written at a point whereby Fuller visits her parents at their Zambian banana and fish farm. The memories are shared by her mother under the Tree of Forgetfulness which is right outside the parents' home. But oh so much more is shared about the family and experiences.The third memoir ("Leaving....") chronicles Fuller's life in Wyoming (where she moved with her husband who is from Boston whom she met in Africa) and the circumstances surrounding the eventual dissolution of their marriage. Oh but there are such astounding revelations in this memoir of Fuller & Charlie's experiences in Africa before winding up in Wyoming. The description of her husband's accident and the aftermath rivals anything I've ever read - I was gutted.Fuller's interweaving of past and current events is seamless (I personally have no issue with an author going back and forth in time, interjecting fascinating side roads to the story).I for one was so ignorant going into the reads about Zambia, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, all other places referenced, the history of the colonials, etc. I had to have a map next to me from the very beginning.I shall forever be shaking my head at the trials/tribulations Fuller's parents chose to endure while living through all that happened while living in Africa - and chose not to leave. You will cry and you will laugh at the parents' 'personalities'.Then there is Fuller's writing. Oh. My. God. Even throughout all the stories, the geography, the surreal occurrences, it's the writing that brought me to my knees. I will never get to Africa, but thanks to Fuller - I've now been there.Always always, throughout all three memoirs, is Fuller's visceral, unending bond to Africa. It's in her blood, her soul, and one wonders if she ultimately will finish out her future final days there. We avid fans of her can only hope that Fuller's third memoir will not be her last. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Brutally Honest and Insightful Perspective of A complex woman *by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2016* This is the first book of hers that I have read and I am eager to go back and read the earlier ones. What struck me most was the honesty and self critical view she takes as she examines her adult life and her marriage. The contrasts between Africa and America become almost a metaphor for the yearning spiritual self in Africa of her childhood and the controlled, mundane life of her home in Wyoming. As another reviewer has written, there were many things left unsaid and I kept asking myself questions while I read the book. What was really the problem with her husband? I understand that he had his wounds and scars but outside of hearing about his family for a few generations back, we never really understood why he vexed her so much and how he held her back from who she wanted to be. I picked up clues like stoic, grounded, and impatient with her when she wasn't interested in finances. Also, he struggled to earn money and they never seemed to get together and make a plan about what to do financially.Or with their lives as a couple. So we had to go on faith that her husband just wasn't right for her through her eyes only although she mostly painted him in a very understanding and sympathetic light. Whenever he did get frustrated with her, she implied that she was often at fault as well.Her relationship with her parents was quite well portrayed and as a reader you really got to understand them even if you didn't always agree with their parenting styles. I think in other parts of the world, parents accept that they have to fend for themselves and ultimately so do their children so they don't worry too much about many things that we worry about in the US. Certainly, as a girl whenever we visited my relatives in India, especially the ones who lived in more remote villages, the parenting and the attitudes towards child rearing were more similar.to what she described in Africa. Also, the emotions being at the surface and the group sympathy where people spoke of their troubles is quite common there. Here, I often feel that people that you meet are very hung up on not burdening anyone with their troubles mostly because they want you to believe that they don't have any. (And yes, as a doctor, I get to speak to people more privately and see that they all have troubles...)I was intrigued by the perception that in her childhood she and her parents had to accede to the fact that catastrophes can just happen to you and you have to roll with it if you make it.However, in England and America, she felt that people demanded more control over their surroundings and believed that they had it. However, there are many parts of America, especially poor inner city areas, where people still live with a more fatalistic attitude.Her mental health and how it pervades her life and her sense of self was very interesting. she is clear that many family members, including her mother suffer from depression or perhaps bipolar disease. With this revelation, she is liberated and can relate observations about her self, her relationships, her struggles from a unique perspective such as when she describes being caught in rainbows of the emotional prism of the man that she has an affair with.I have a deep sense of respect for someone who can be so brutally honest and hard on themselves in order to understand what they want from their lives and what makes them happy. It is well-deserved. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another Emotional Rollercoaster *by M***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 20, 2021* I am an Alexandra Fuller fan. I loved Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness. When I picked up this book, I didn't realize that it was such a raw account of her life, specifically her marriage. Fuller does not hold back when describing the great highs and overwhelming lows of her life in Africa, or the idiosyncrasies of her family (especially her parents and grandparents). In this book, she leaves Africa for the US (Idaho, Utah and Wyoming) and takes us on the fateful journey of her 19 year marriage. There were times I wasn't sure if I wanted to root for her or for her husband. While she seems like a decent person, I'm not sure she would be easy to be married to. I get the very real sense that there is no way to separate Africa from Ms. Fuller. The influence of her childhood is much too great. As a consequence, I'm not sure she will ever be fulfilled in America or with anyone who doesn't continually seek and provide great adventures like her father. For fans of Fuller, and authors similar to Peter Godwin (Mukiwa, When a Crocdile Eats the Sun) this is a very good read. 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