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Leaving Before the Rains Come

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And away we fly -- Madness in prescribed doses -- Decisions by Dionysus -- Mr. adventure's immunity -- Marital advice from a mildly stoned cook -- Marriage vows in the time of malaria -- Continental drift -- Marriage advice from the end of the world -- Signal flags -- The midday sun -- Last call on the African queen -- This grand inheritance -- Marriage in the time of cholera -- Babies in the time of yellow fever -- Mad beans, time, and ghosts -- The river runner and the rat race -- Fortune teller fish -- Falling -- Broken -- Cry for a whole people.
The author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight traces her post-divorce confrontation of an upbringing in Africa that was overshadowed by the Rhodesian wars, her complicated parents and her courtship with her ex-husband. --Publisher's description.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: 258 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594205866
1594205868

SUBJECTS
Fuller, Alexandra, -- 1969-
Fuller, Alexandra, -- 1969- -- Divorce.
Fuller, Alexandra, -- 1969- -- Family.
Divorced women -- Biography.
Divorce -- Psychological aspects.
Zimbabwe -- Social life and customs.