Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

A New York Times bestseller, A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, An Amazon.com Best Book of the Year -- From the author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood. Alexandra Fuller braids a multilayered narrative around the perfectly-lit-Happy Valley-era Africa of her mother's childhood; the boiled cabbage grimness of her father's English childhood; and the darker, civil war-torn Africa of her own childhood. A story of survival and madness, love and war, loyalty and forgiveness, this intimate exploration of Fuller's family -- at its heart,the story of her mother, Nicola -- is as funny, terrifying, exotic, and unselfconscious as Nicola herself.