Books by Alexandra Fuller always take my breath away and leave me speechless for a while after I finish reading them. This remains true with her latest, Leaving Before the Rains Come. If you haven't read Alexandra Fuller you are in for a rare treat and a wild ride. Start at the beginning with Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight, about her childhood in Africa in the midst of the Rhodesian wars, and just keep reading all her books from there.
Leaving Before the Rains Come focuses on the slow decay of her twenty year marriage to an American river guide she met in Africa, who she believed would save her from her life of chaos. Once settled in their big, expensive, sterile home in Wyoming, Fuller felt lost, lonely, and full of anxiety.
Her writing is superb; told with gut wrenching honesty, it is a book you won't soon forget.
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