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Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Alexandra Fuller

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#1958 of 3,809 books · #669 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography (2025).

Fi: A Memoir of My Son was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2025. The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child – from the bestselling memoirist of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. It's midsummer 2018, and Alexandra Fuller is about to turn fifty, but feels like her life is coming apart. She vows to get herself back on an even keel. And then – suddenly and incomprehensibly – her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep. No stranger to loss – young siblings, a parent, her home country of Zimbabwe – Alexandra is nonetheless levelled. At the same time, she is painfully aware that she cannot succumb and abandon her two surviving daughters. From a sheep waggon in the mountains of Wyoming to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, she embarks on a journey up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains, trying to find out how to grieve herself whole.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781529931631
Topics
Grief and lossMotherhoodDeath of a child

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