Fi: A Memoir of My Son

Helen Macdonald's memoir Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a profound and gripping account of surviving unexpected, devastating loss. It follows Alexandra Fuller's journey through grief, from Wyoming to New Mexico and Canada, as she seeks to find ways to grieve herself whole in a culture with no instructions for it.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 11 July 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child is a profoundly moving and gripping memoir by the award-winning and bestselling memoirist of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2025 in Memoir/Autobiography, this book is a mesmeric celebration of surviving unexpected, devastating loss. It will help others surviving loss - surviving life. Set in midsummer in Wyoming, Alexandra Fuller is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, and freshly sober, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel. And then - suddenly and incomprehensibly - her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep. From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra journeys up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains in an attempt to find how to grieve herself whole. By turns disarming, devastating, and unexpectedly, blessedly funny, Alexandra recounts the wild medicine of painstakingly grieving a child in a culture that has no instructions for it.

Weight: 388g
Dimension: 222 x 142 x 27 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781787335103